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

Adrian Cockcroft

It was clearly far better hardware than we could build, had a proper full featured operating system on it, and as soon as it shipped, people figured out how to jailbreak it and program it. We knew that many customers already had iPhones so the traffic ramp up for the new service was extremely fast.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

dr_c0d3 : 2000: Write 100s of lines of XML to "declaratively" configure your servlets and EJBs 2018: Write 100s of lines of YAML to "declaratively" configure your microservices At least XML had schemas.

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

Additionally, ScaleGrid offers a Startup Program where early-stage companies can get 50% off their MySQL hosting on DigitalOcean for up to 12 months. DigitalOcean. MySQL Version. innodb_buffer_pool_size. innodb_log_file_size. Innodb_io_capacity. innodb_io_capacity_max. binlog_group_commit_sync_delay. Features for MySQL DigitalOcean.

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CMake: The Case When the Project's Quality Is Unforgivable

DZone

The first release of the program took place in 2000. CMake is a cross-platform system for automating software building from source code. CMake isn't meant directly for building, it only generates files to control a build from CMakeLists.txt files. For comparison, the PVS-Studio analyzer appeared only in 2008.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not so much.

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Scalability: strong and weak scaling

PDC

Consider a program that takes 20 hours to run using a single processor core. If a particular part of the program, which takes one hour to execute, cannot be parallelized ( s = 1/20 = 0.05), and if the code that takes up the remaining 19 hours of execution time can be parallelized ( p = 1 ? speedup = 1/ s = 20).

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Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (December 2021 Edition)

Smashing Magazine

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. The Perl Advent started back in 2000 and is perhaps the longest running web advent calendar that many know of.

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