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

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

In the world of DevOps and SRE, DevOps automation answers the undeniable need for efficiency and scalability. The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving.

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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. There is no need to explicitly disable THP defragmentation since its code path will not be triggered when THP is disabled in this way. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Under the SSPL, a company can take MongoDB’s code and deploy it, but that company cannot offer it as a service. looking out for MongoDB Inc.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems. You must understand how to use indexes to make sorting cheaper. Looking at this, can you say which is faster: LIMIT 1 or LIMIT 10 ?

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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Futures or Callbacks to Communicate Asynchronous Results

Sutter's Mill

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007).

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Effective Concurrency: Know When to Use an Active Object Instead of a Mutex

Sutter's Mill

Finally, here are links to previous Effective Concurrency columns: 1 The Pillars of Concurrency (Aug 2007). 2 How Much Scalability Do You Have or Need? (Sep Sep 2007). 3 Use Critical Sections (Preferably Locks) to Eliminate Races (Oct 2007). 4 Apply Critical Sections Consistently (Nov 2007).