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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

We had some fun getting hardware figured out, and I used a 3D printer to make some cases, but the whole project was interrupted by the delivery of the iPhone by Apple in late 2007. Reed wanted to know if we should do it, and whether it was possible in the time available?

C++

C++ Mobile Hardware Java

Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

Cache

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking

Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is available under a paid subscription. With hardware being more powerful and cheaper, and the technology evolving, now it is easier than ever to manage large tables in MySQL. 1 mysql mysql 592K Dec 30 02:48 tb1.ibd ibd -rw-r --. 1 mysql mysql 464K Dec 30 02:48 tb2.ibd ibd -rw-r --. 1 mysql mysql 464K Dec 30 02:48 tb3.ibd

Open Source

Open Source Storage Database Big Data

Scalability: strong and weak scaling

PDC

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In such scenarios, scalability or scaling is widely used to indicate the ability of hardware and software to deliver greater computational power when the amount of resources is increased. However, as Gustafson pointed out [2], in practice the sizes of problems scale with the amount of available resources.

Scalability

Scalability Programming Government Hardware

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media

Media Games Education Engineering

Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

The Morning Paper

JULY 18, 2019

Under high query loads therefore, Neural Bloom Filters could potentially be deployed “ without a catastrophic decrease in throughput, if GPU devices are available ” (emphasis mine). If you can do multiple queries in parallel exploiting GPUs, then Neural Bloom Filters can claw some of that time back. Wrapping up.

Network

Network Java Database Hardware

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Books Online (BOL) References: All BOL references cited in this paper are taken from the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Books Online site (updated to include SP3 functionality), which can be found at: [link] Click the Product Documentation link. Then follow the instructions to either download the BOL or browse online.

Servers

Servers Cache Media Hardware

Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. The tech economy suffered greatly in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting in 2000.

Social Media

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet

Platform Adjacency Theory

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

This matters because it is the corpus of attractive content uniquely available through a meta-platform that convinces users to adopt its runtime, and no platform developer can afford to build enough content to be compelling on their own. In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features.

Games

Games Hardware Java Mobile

A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

This example instrumented one of many thousands of available events. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. Kernel dynamic tracing of read() bytes bpftrace -e 'kretprobe:vfs_read { @bytes = lhist(retval, 0, 2000, 200) }'. For large environments, this ability can help you save millions. BEGIN Start of bpftrace.

Latency

Latency C++ Cache Programming

Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload

SQL Performance

MAY 22, 2019

You might wonder why there isn’t a plan for all 100,000 adhoc queries that executed, and it has to do with how the plan cache works (it’s size based on available memory, when un-used plans are aged out, etc.). What’s critical is that so many adhoc plans exist, compared to what we see for the rest of the cache types.

Cache

Cache Performance Hardware Servers

Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

On the first of Yahoo’s guiding principles: First is availability — this is the bedrock of building a website. If the site’s not available to people, game over, we might as well not even bother. And so our job is to make sure that everything we do is out there, working, available to everybody. On another Yahoo! Here at Yahoo!,

Google

Google Website Availability Games

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The JPEG 2000 format , based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), was introduced as a successor to JPEG in the year 2000. Webp does not have all the flexibilities of JPEG 2000. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. 264, a.k.a.

Code

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

The SQL Server 2000 I/O Basics document is a prerequisite to the information contained in this document. and 2000. This is different from the reference count design that was used in SQL Server 7.0

Servers

Servers Cache Database Media

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

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. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. Fua = Forced Unit Access. Device Flush.

Servers

Servers Media Cache Storage

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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Scalability: strong and weak scaling

Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

Conserve or Invest?

Platform Adjacency Theory

A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload

Being Practical

AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

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