Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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. mongodb-sysctl.conf – if /etc/sysctl.d

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

You can see in this case it happens to match the IO activity graph, with storage taking more time to serve write requests versus read requests. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

Benchmarking 48

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 48

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Table 1: Movie and File Size Examples Initial Architecture A simplified view of our initial cloud video processing pipeline is illustrated in the following diagram. is 220 Mbps.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40