The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. ML-based auto-tuning. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016.

Software 78

Software Software Google Hardware 78

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

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. Beginning with SQL Server 2016, you can now specify similar logic based on fragmentation levels.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. What message process warranty level do we require? At least once? At most once? Exactly once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80