The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system.

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Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

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 number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. Dynamo might have been the best technology in the world at the time but it was still software you had to run yourself. And nobody wanted to learn how to do that if they didnâ??t

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

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