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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp.

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

TCL was designed as a language to be closely tied with C/C++ and at this lower level there is the compiled TCL (tclsh) or TCL/TK (wish) interpreter and supporting libraries. As virtual users are started the database specific packages and workload specific modules are loaded into the virtual user threads. Virtual Users.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test). Vuser 1:1 Active Virtual Users configured Vuser 1:TEST RESULT : System achieved 1844256 NOPM from 4232155 PostgreSQL TPM Vuser 1:FINISHED SUCCESS ALL VIRTUAL USERS COMPLETE.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. The founders had noticed that in many companies, product designers worked in a very detached manner from the rest of production. Strategically, IT doesn't matter. Value creation through data.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

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