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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. reliable and scalable distributed systems.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

It should offer high bandwidth, horizontal scalability, fault tolerance, and strong consistency. The first implementation (c. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. What is a distributed storage backend? S3), RADOS block device (cf.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Heckerman, and C. DG12] How Companies Learn Your Secrets, C. Kleinberg, C.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Note: ​​ Pages that are nev er modified ( never​​ dirtied) remain in the clean state until they are dis c arded at which time the checksum is validated for the constant page. Then ​​ write C ​​ obtains ​​ 01 ​​ and so on.

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