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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. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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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 We took the approach of allocating small or large cloud storage space depending on the actual packaging input size (Figure 2).

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

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). I’m just pointing out that it is not one of the top target buckets: Most of the MSLs that NIST/NSA/CISA/etc.

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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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