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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. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL and Autovacuum Internals

Percona

This may help tune your table level autovacuum settings appropriately. Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL. How do we identify the tables that need their autovacuum settings tuned ? . In order to tune autovacuum for tables individually, you must know the number of inserts/deletes/updates on a table for an interval.

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

Percona

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. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

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Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?

Percona

You can see in this case it happens to match the IO activity graph, with storage taking more time to serve write requests versus read requests. While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage.

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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 From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. is 220 Mbps.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document.

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