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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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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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. when it updates the ‘mdat’ size)?

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

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. 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.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

In this benchmark the difference between looking at workload from a SQL commands standpoint vs a row operation standpoint yields the same results, but it is not going to always be the case. Let’s now look at the operating system level. This workload is write intensive by this measure. Not all writes are equal either.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Many of these systems support I/O ordering with a stable media cache and subsequently combine and/or split I/O requests across available subsystem resources to complete the storing to physical media. No intermediate cache should be used that is not considered stable media.

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