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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. To learn bpftrace, I've created a couple of references: - [one-liners tutorial] - [reference guide] The one-liners tutorial is based on my [FreeBSD DTrace Tutorial], and I think is a time-efficient way to learn bpftrace (as well as DTrace on FreeBSD).

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Thomas Bohm.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. Amazon DynamoDB is designed to maintain predictably high performance and to be highly cost efficient for workloads of any scale, from the smallest to the largest internet-scale applications.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. To learn bpftrace, I've created a couple of references: - [one-liners tutorial] - [reference guide] The one-liners tutorial is based on my [FreeBSD DTrace Tutorial], and I think is a time-efficient way to learn bpftrace (as well as DTrace on FreeBSD).

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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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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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