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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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. I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. s prices by 70%. For example, in our US East (N.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL."

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

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. Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity.

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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

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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