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.

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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.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.),

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. Below is an example architecture for Group Replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. Group Replication This new concept was introduced in the MySQL Community Edition 5.7

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. The swap issue is explained in the excellent article by Jeremy Cole at the Swap Insanity and NUMA Architecture.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities. Complying with all applicable copyright laws is the responsibility of the user. See the following article.

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