Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. 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. The growth of Amazonâ??s

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

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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. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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