Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. The Xbox 360 CPU had three PowerPC cores and a 1 MB L2 cache and these features are clearly visible on the wafer. I used to know what the visible elements of the CPU cores were (L1 caches? To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ISPs do cache DNS however which means if your first provider goes down it will still try to query the first DNS server for a period of time before querying for the second one. Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB. So DNS services definitely go down!

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. Amazon DynamoDB provides high throughput at very low latency.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. When we talk about static site generators, incremental regeneration, or instant cache invalidation, it’s enough to make the layman’s eyes glaze over.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

2004) was a user-space file system called the Extent and B-Tree based object file system. To avoid any consistency overheads on object writes it writes data directly to raw disk , so there is only one cache flush fora data write. S3), RADOS block device (cf. EBS), and CephFS distributed file system are all built on top of RADOS.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. In this case, the Helsinki POP’s identifier is fihe.

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