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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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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. 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.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Stay tuned! Large preview ).

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. 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.

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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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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 larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. ​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal.

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