High Scalability

JANUARY 19, 2019

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline. By maintaining strong observability of clients’ and vendors’ systems, teams can identify potential software issues before they proliferate.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The partitioned memory and latch objects protect in-memory structures for short durations and can be sized according to available memory for SQL Server. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. For example, a transaction could take out millions of key locks and remain active for minutes or even days.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The SQL Server Host Extension provides file level integrity. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. When a move (rename), create, delete (remove/unlink) occurs the Host Extension issues a fsync on the parent directory as required by Linux.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 17, 2018

When starting SQL Server on Linux why are there two (2) sqlservr processes? systemctl status mssql-server mssql-server.service – Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine … CGroup: /system.slice/mssql-server.service ??85829 Bob Dorr – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer.

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Try out their platform.

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

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High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Try out their platform.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

When we ask SQL Server to change some aspect of a column's definition, it needs to check that the existing data is compatible with the new definition. Improvements in SQL Server 2016. The subject of this post is the additional changes that are enabled for metadata-only from SQL Server 2016 onward.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud Kleppmann et al., If you start reading this paper you could be lost for hours following all the interesting links and ideas, and end up even more dissatisfied than you already are with the state of software today. Local-first software ideals. It should be fast.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Bob Ward and I worked with our SQL Server Tool developers (thanks David) to enable ‘Q uick XE Trace ’ capabilities. The feature is available in the latest SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release. Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. SQL Server does NOT do this, in fact I made sure SQL Server on Linux does not allow this to occur. This issue does NOT impact SQL Server database, log and backup files.

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High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

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Education 105

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Try out their platform. Apply here.

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High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Try out their platform. Apply here.

Education 105

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

To track the login statistical information, enable the sp_configure value ‘common criteria compliance enabled ‘ setting and restart SQL Server. The information flow: Client sends login request to SQL Server. SQL Server creates new session object. SQL Server Partitioned Locks: [link].

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SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 3, 2018

Imagine you have a group on your domain [CONTOSOgroup] which has a member [CONTOSOuser], and the [CONTOSOgroup] has login permissions to a SQL Server instance. Running “DROP LOGIN [CONTOSOgroup]” we expected that the [CONTOSOuser] would no longer have access to SQL Server. create a login) or they reset their connection (e.g.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 11, 2017

SQL Server 2019 CTP2. SQL Server 2019 adds broad support for distributed transactions (both MSDTC/OLE-TX and XA) to SQL Server on Linux. You can establish and use transactions between Linux and Linux or Linux and Windows instances of SQL Server or your application. Configuring MSDTC for SQL Server on Linux: [link].

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Tasktop

MARCH 5, 2020

This article will introduce you to six more ServiceNow integration patterns that are helping organizations to improve software delivery efficiency and business outcomes. . #2 Changes the developer makes to the defects’ status are visible to the QA engineer in test management. Get Software Delivery trends and insights in your inbox.

Efficiency 52

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. With the announcement I can tell you more about one of the things we have been working on; SQL Server running on IoT Edge and Developer machines in under 500MB of memory. The effort focuses attention on memory usage and disk space requirements of SQL Server. Description.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

SQL Server is designed to scale across the spectrum of small machines to enterprise class servers. The changes made in SQL Server 2017 CU4 improve resource usage on smaller machines, such as a VM or Container used for testing and development. For SQL Server 2017 CU4 the small environment threshold is 2GB.

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Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

Software was written in Motorola 6800 assembler, using a PDP-11 running Unix V6 as a development platform. That got me a job at Cambridge Consultants Ltd as a software engineer writing code (mostly in C) for embedded real time signal processing and control systems.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The Back Story.

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SQL Server According to Bob

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When executing a query to enumerate the locks, such as select * from sys.dm_tran_locks, how does SQL Server scan the locks and avoid impacting the overall concurrency? I recently posted on aspects of the SQL Server Lock Manager and found the iteration of the locks interesting as I was stepping in the code. link] [link].

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 31, 2018

Update Oct 2018 – SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0. SQL Server 2019 changes the DELTE On CLOSE behavior used on Linux installations. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The downside of using unlink or remove, and keeping the file descriptor open, is that the file becomes hidden. Restart the VM.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. SQL Server’s NewSequentialId () calls the Windows API UuidCreateSequential , which is limited in SQLPAL, prior to the CU 4 update. Server B may be generating uuids that sort before those from Server A.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 31, 2017

If my memory serves me correctly SQL Server started using the ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather APIs in SQL Server 6.5 On Linux the capabilities are called “ Vectored I/O.” – Example writev SQL Server on Linux takes full advantage of vectored I/O, retaining the performance and design benefits.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) 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. High Level Design. Architecture.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Meet Jason Grodan, a Software Training Specialist at Tasktop! My role at Tasktop is a ‘Software Training Specialist’. What does a typical day as a Software Training Specialist look like for you? We serve up VMs for our trainees that include a live instance of Tasktop installed in Windows Server environment.

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High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Apply here.

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High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Apply here.

Education 105

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Apply here.

Education 113

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SQL Server According to Bob

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Unfortunately, the timings were always small and not something the SQL Server engine was doing, instead the client was closing the connection. In fact, I was able to break the reproduction down to a single connection using an idle SQL Server so there was no impact from other workloads. Powershell Script.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 10, 2018

SQL Server Books Online documents Instant File Initialization and the associated security considerations. SQL Server performs the following API calls when creating or extending (growing) data and log files. If the file is a log file (LDF) SQL Server always writes a known pattern (other than zeros) to the allocated space.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. PA File Sight monitors file access on a server in real-time. Apply here.

Education 108

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

SysOps Enginee r: As Kinsta ’s SysOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in caring for the health of our servers, preventing issues, and responding immediately to mitigate any problems in our infrastructure. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development.

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