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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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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis.

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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 As shown in Figure 5, packaging locally using non-NVMe local storage such as AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) and then uploading takes more time than using MezzFS, but doing the same with NVMe SSD takes less time.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

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

This is because the setting has no use in modern PCIe/NVMe devices.