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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems.

All Things Distributed

Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Virtualizing Operating Systems. By Werner Vogels on 20 July 2012 12:00 PM. This weekends back-to-basics reading is on operating system virtualization. Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L.

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. By Werner Vogels on 18 December 2012 10:00 PM. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. July 20 Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

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The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

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Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. If you have big physical hardware with defaults, then you should look at optimizing MAXDOP.

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A Guide To CSS Debugging

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If you use CodePen, the default reset is Normalize.css , authored by Nicolas Gallagher and initially released in 2012. Depending on the browser and operating system, you may also experience browser scrollbar widths upsetting the 100vw calculation as well. It can be found in many, many projects and is quite an opinionated reset.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

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These are areas in which we have invested heavily to take advantage of 10 Gbps (and faster) networks and to handle intermittent network delays inherent in virtual server infrastructures. This philosophy manifests itself in all areas, including installation, application development, and cluster management.

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