Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. But this would be no ordinary project.

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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. To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. 2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

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. Thanks to everyone who worked on these, and all the other technologies that we use.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. There’s no question Jamstack is a developer-focused technology. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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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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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. Thanks to everyone who worked on these, and all the other technologies that we use.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

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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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions.

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