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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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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 Doing so has the added advantage of being able to design and tune the enhancement to suit the requirements of packager and our other encoding applications. is 220 Mbps.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

Tasktop

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The right leader matters, as retired Admiral John Richardson attested.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

I’ve written before about how to tune out retry storms. The best way to increase utilization is to spread out or prevent load peaks, so that the system runs without problems at higher average loads. Load peaks can be caused by inefficient initialization code at startup, cron jobs, traffic spikes, or retry storms.

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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

While our white paper Performance at Scale could provide useful insight if you are at the planning or review stage. For an introduction to PMM, our free and open source management and monitoring software, you might find value in my recorded webinar, MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with PMM.