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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

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

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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Observability platform vs. observability tools

Dynatrace

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. For example, in 2005, Dynatrace introduced a distributed tracing tool that allowed developers to implement local tracing and debugging. Observability is made up of three key pillars: metrics, logs, and traces.

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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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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page.

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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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