Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. I don’t remember what the L2 cache latency was but do remember that the latency varied depending on which CPU core I ran it on. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines. S3), RADOS block device (cf.

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. I wrote seeksize.d

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Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. I wrote seeksize.d

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. It is our first Region in Africa, and we're shooting to have it ready in the first half of 2020.

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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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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. We now have workflows where independent developers from around the world can come together and build extremely high-quality software.

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