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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. The answer is hardware interrupts. That’s crazy! But that’s how Windows has always worked. The new undocumented reality.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus. The best way to describe the Citus way of doing things is to reflect how data is managed by a disk RAID array. citus_columnar | 11.1-1

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

Breaking that assumption allowed Ceph to introduce a new storage backend called BlueStore with much better performance and predictability, and the ability to support the changing storage hardware landscape. But let’s take a quick look at the changing hardware landscape before we go on… The changing hardware landscape.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

By Aditya Mavlankar, Jan De C**k¹, Cyril Concolato, Kyle Swanson, Anush Moorthy and Anne Aaron TL; DR We need an alternative to JPEG that a) is widely supported, b) has better compression efficiency and c) has a wider feature set. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Character POS ASCII Value Formula Value A 1 65 67 C 2 67 69 Checksum 136 Comparing ​​ the checksum values indicates ​​ that the values do not match and ​​ damage ​​ has occurred to the data. ​​ Contact your hardware manufacture for assistance.

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