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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety.

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ABAC on SpiceDB: Enabling Netflix’s Complex Identity Types

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix Modeling Challenges Before Caveats SpiceDB, being a Relationship Based Access Control (ReBAC) system, expected authorization checks to be performed against the existence of a specific relationship between objects. This is a Caveated SpiceDB relationship. Users fit this model — they have a single user ID to describe who they are.

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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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