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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

From a career point of view, I was looking for a change and decided to get out of the business of selling computers to big companies and figure out consumer oriented technology at eBay. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

It takes the prompt and just returns one of the most similar “training documents” it has in its database, verbatim. In “ How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology ,” The New York Times reported that One day in 2005, a mother in Evanston, Ill., joined Flickr.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. The pace of these changes has made it challenging for server-based infrastructures to manage fast-growing populations of users and data sources while maintaining fast response times.

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 1

SQL Performance

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. I would like to share a couple of recent examples that help illustrate how using deprecated SQL Server features continues to bite us.

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

All Things Distributed

But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

For example, in 2005, Dynatrace introduced a distributed tracing tool that allowed developers to implement local tracing and debugging. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources. The case for an integrated observability platform.