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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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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 On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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

All Things Distributed

No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. 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 took my time to figure out what weblog CMS I was going to use to free me from having to run a server.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

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. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

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. They transparently distribute stored objects across the cluster’s servers and ensure that data is not lost if a server or network component fails.

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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. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. . --> Remember the original VMware x86 hypervisor from 1998?