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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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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 Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture. is 220 Mbps.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

Tasktop

The European leg of the DevOps Enterprise (Virtual) Summit 2021 returned last week (17-20 May) as the community reflected on a year like none other. There was plenty of positivity in the (virtual) air as speakers and attendees shared stories of heart, ingenuity, courage and resilience.

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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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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

However if you have a containerized workload that you are measuring with Kepler , or a cloud instance based workload that is running in virtual machines, you measure your carbon footprint based on how many and how big the containers and instances are, and how busy their CPUs are. I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. For ​​ more information about ​​ I/O ​​ caching requirements ​​ and SQL Server, see the following ​​ white papers on MSDN. ​​ The following table outlines the virtual protection states.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities.

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