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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 Doing so has the added advantage of being able to design and tune the enhancement to suit the requirements of packager and our other encoding applications. is 220 Mbps.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms. Of course, Azure and AWS use different methodologies to calculate their carbon footprint, which are currently based on monthly averages of the energy they purchase (using the market method, rather than what they use via the location method).

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

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. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.