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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Saltzer, D.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers. One or more specified cache servers are unavailable, which could be caused by busy network or servers. …). Please retry later.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

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A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. Amazon ElastiCache customers will see their prices drop by up to 10%, depending on their cache node types. Comments ().

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: DBCC Scales 7x Better

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Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.