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%. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

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. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

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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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. This was not our technology vendorsâ??

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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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