Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. I used to know what the visible elements of the CPU cores were (L1 caches? To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. As of 2010, Finland has become the first country in the world to make Internet access a legal right. In this case, the Helsinki POP’s identifier is fihe.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. To avoid any consistency overheads on object writes it writes data directly to raw disk , so there is only one cache flush fora data write. S3), RADOS block device (cf. EBS), and CephFS distributed file system are all built on top of RADOS.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. But remember, ISPs also cache the DNS so by setting a longer TTL it means fewer queries to your DNS servers. So DNS services definitely go down!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

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