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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The zone interface… manages the disk as a sequence of 256 MiB regions that must be written sequentially, encouraging a log-structured, copy-on-write design. This design is in direct opposition to the in-place overwrite design followed by most mature file systems. S3), RADOS block device (cf. The first implementation (c.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. In Designing The Perfect Navigation , Vitaly will explore 100s of practical examples of better mega-dropdowns , hamburgers, carousels, modals and filters.

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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. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

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