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

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d helped eBay recover from capacity related outages in 1999 and had setup their capacity planning processes. After a year or so, and a re-organization, eBay Research labs was formed by Eric Billingsley, and I joined to help recruit the team, including a good friend from Sun, Paul Strong , and build out the innovation programs.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

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Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers and libdivide

Daniel Lemire

In some instances, libdivide can even be more efficient than compilers because it uses an approach introduced by Robison (2005) where we not only use multiplications and shifts, but also an addition to avoid arithmetic overflows. For this test, I am using an Intel (skylake) processing and GCC 8.1. Can we do better? count5 + = 1 ; }.

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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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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

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

SQL Server According to Bob

CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.375 Synchronized I/O Data Integrity Completion. Refer to the ISO documentation on file integrity for complete details: CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.376 Synchronized I/O File Integrity Completion. The data storage always uses the multi-step flush process. File Integrity Standard. O_NONBLOCK.

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