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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. The answer is hardware interrupts. timeGetTime calls ReadInterruptTick which at its core just reads this 64-bit counter.

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

The Morning Paper

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. Readers of this blog properly have a pretty good idea what ‘efficient transactions’ and ‘fast metadata operations’ are all about.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

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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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

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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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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data.

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