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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P. Copeland and Setrag N.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

From Distributed Caches to Real-Time Digital Twins. In general terms, in-memory computing refers to the related concepts of (a) storing fast-changing data in primary memory instead of in secondary storage and (b) employing scalable computing techniques to distribute a workload across a cluster of servers.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

As ​​ the ​​ administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, ​​ you will find that ​​ visibility into ​​ the ​​ SQL Server ​​ I/O ​​ subsystem ​​ has been ​​ significantly increased.

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. Lighthouse also caught a cache misconfiguration that prevented some of our static assets from being served from our CDN. We still have a lot of work to do!

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