Particular Software

JANUARY 27, 2020

MSMQ was fairly unique in that it supported distributed transactions, meaning that database operations in SQL Server and messaging operations through the queues could all be combined in one atomic transaction so that either everything succeeded, or everything failed. See our blog post What does idempotent mean? for more details.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. You need an “abtest” database service. There are three ways to populate the database. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

Testing 52

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). I just wrote [wss.pl] as a front-end to this feature. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 16, 2018

Here is a MySQL database server (mysqld), PID 423, and measuring its working set size for 0.1 My tool does this using /proc/PID/clear_refs and the Referenced value from /proc/PID/smaps, which were added in 2007 by David Rientjes (thanks). I just wrote [wss.pl] as a front-end to this feature. seconds (100 milliseconds): #./wss.pl

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. HTTP, TCP, FTP, MQTT, JMS), databases (i.e., Most well-known is probably Apache Camel. The need for flow control.

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Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The results are saved to a database so they can be reused. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. 264, AV1, etc.).

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. The data captured by MDN Browser Compatibility Data Respository and the caniuse database is often partial and sometimes incorrect. PWA Install Prompts. Apple led the way with support for installing certain web apps to a device's homescreen as early as iOS 1.0.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. VL02] The True Lift Model – A Novel Data Mining Approach to Response Modeling in Database Marketing, V. Zapf, 2007. [KJ05] An Empirical Analysis of Price Discrimination Mechanisms and Retailer Profitability, R. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013. Marlin, 2004. Pyle, 1999. Pazzani, D.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure. However, we do not plan to slow down and we are not stopping there.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.

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