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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. Therefore, IT has never been more important for strategy than it is now – not only for us, but for every company in the digital age. Strategically, IT doesn't matter.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

WebServices, unfortunately, failed to deliver on the distributed systems front by having virtually all implementations using synchronous/blocking calls—which we all know is a recipe for scaling disaster. In 2003, Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf released their book Enterprise Integration Patterns.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly. Make sure that you ​​ understand any ​​ write-caching strategies ​​ that the utility ​​ uses.

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