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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up.

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

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We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Jim Mauro and Allan Packer visited on rotation from New Jersey, and Adelaide Australia, and worked out how to produce a database sizing guide for Oracle Financials, which I wrote up and published. Jim also joined the database performance team.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. As Amazonâ??s

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

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With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

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SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

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