The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from 10 years of Ceph evolution Aghayev et al., In this case, the assumption that a distributed storage backend should clearly be layered on top of a local file system. A distributed file system provides a unified view over aggregated storage from multiple physical machines.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared.

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. More after jump!

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. They’re inefficient, poorly designed, and perhaps even wholly inappropriate for the task.

Games 140

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 140

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This framework resembles the approach suggested in [JK98].

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Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

C++ 81

C++ Programming Code Testing 81

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 9, 2020

IEEE Computer Nov/Dec 2004. Last time out we looked at some of the difficulties inherit in automating control systems. Written in 2004, the ideas remind me very much of Mark Burgess’ promise theory , which was also initially developed around the same time. With thanks to Thomas Depierre for the paper suggestion.

Government 43

Government Systems Processing Monitoring 43

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Can you think of a better system that can stay up without losing time initiating failovers when a node fails? Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. With a Selenium-based engine, Katalon is designed to create and reuse automated test scripts for UI without coding. It is free to use. TestComplete.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Choosing 420 subsampling, over the original 444 format, halves the number of samples (counting across all 3 color planes) that need to be encoded while relying on the fact that the human visual system is more sensitive to luma than chroma. With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

Code 220

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 220

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was created by John Gruber in 2004 with the goal of making writing formatted text in a plain text editor easier. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. This is due to Safari’s questionable tactic of tying browser updates to system updates, as well as hesitancy around updating software for some people who use assistive technology.

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Website Technology Technology Code 134

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Inspired Design Decisions With Max Huber: Turning Mundane Subjects Into Exciting Visual Communication. Even highly regarded, well-known designers spent time working with mundane subjects and produced iconic work. Andrew Clarke.

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Design Media Development Energy 100

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Doing strategy on behalf of a collectively-owned, open system is extremely unusual. Companies also don't ask strategists to design and implement solutions in the opportunity spaces they identify. 1 realtor.com 66% 2004 296 0.05 That's by design. Getting paid to do it is almost unheard of. 1 Nike 75% 3122 285 0.12

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Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76