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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. 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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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. 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. All Things Distributed.

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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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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Throughout the web’s history, static websites have always been a popular option due to their simplicity, scalability, and security. 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. Drupal is not just a CMS.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Marlin, 2004. Fisher, 2007. Levin, 2013. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze, 2008.

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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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