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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

FUN FACT : In this talk , Dikang Gu, a software engineer at Instagram core infra team has mentioned about how they use Cassandra to serve critical usecases, high scalability requirements, and some pain points. We will use a cache having an LRU based eviction policy for caching user feeds of active users. Optimization.

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SQL Server on IoT Edge and Developer Machines – Smaller Footprint

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. The lock manager has partitions, lock block cache and other structures. Reduce the number of partitions and size of the cache. IO Request Caches.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · This flag does NOT imply flush behaviors, only the avoidance of the system file cache.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

In the CMS selection process, developer experience is not a factor, although successful implementation and ongoing maintenance require developer friendly tooling and support for modern software engineering practices. Not to mention, traditional CMS implementation cycle is generally waterfall or water-Scrum-fall at best.

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