Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Improved Architecture In order to address the limitations of our initial architecture, we proceeded to make some optimizations.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40