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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 Figure 1: A Simplified Video Processing Pipeline With this architecture, chunk encoding is very efficient and processed in distributed cloud computing instances. is 220 Mbps.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. Massive economies of scale and efficiency improvements allow AWS to continually lower prices.

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

Percona

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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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. Efficiency. The rules that are not efficient enough to implement in the compiler will always be relegated to optional standalone tools. That’s pretty easy to statically guarantee, except for some cases of the unused parts of lazily constructed array/vector storage.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For example, many high-end installations contain multiple I/O storage devices. SQL Server 7.0

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