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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. ​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal.

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