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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. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Some cloud providers also offer specialized instances for database workloads, which may provide additional features and optimizations for performance and scalability.

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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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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.