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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. s study of uses of C#’s unsafe on StackOverflow and prevalence of vulnerabilities, and that all programs eventually call trusted native libraries or operating system code. Efficiency. Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer. Portability.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. MezzFS borrows from how operating systems handle page faults. is 220 Mbps.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. SQL Server always checks I/O completion status for any operating system error conditions and proper data transfer size and then handles errors appropriately. Without this capability, ​​ SQL Server could not rely on the system to support WAL protocol needs.

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