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The Paradox of Leadership

Edge Perspectives

The first paradox: in a world of mounting performance pressure, we seek “strong” leaders with all the answers, when what we need are leaders with powerful questions. Response to mounting performance pressure. The challenge of course is that, in a rapidly changing world of mounting performance pressure, no one has all the answers.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

The ProRes codec family provides great editing performance and image quality. As described by the white paper Apple ProRes ( link ), the target data rate of the Apple ProRes HQ for 1920x1080 at 29.97 is 220 Mbps. Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior). Efficiency. Then I can still use fully modern C++… just nicer. Portability.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

Perform routine maintenance and backups to ensure data integrity. Advantages There are many advantages of MySQL replication, but a few highlights include the enhancement of scalability by allowing read-intensive workloads to be distributed across multiple replicas, offloading a primary database server, and improving overall performance.

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

Percona

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed.

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