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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While different systems require different features from a storage backend, two of these features, (1) efficient transactions and (2) fast metadata operations appear to be common; another emerging requirement is (3) support for novel, backward-incompatible storage hardware. Implementing transactions efficiently.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0:

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

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. If you need a developer, taking a Jamstack approach is one of the most efficient ways to leverage your staffing resources. Drupal is not just a CMS.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Screenshot: tracing read latency for PID 181: # bpftrace -e 'kprobe:vfs_read /pid == 30153/ { @start[tid] = nsecs; } kretprobe:vfs_read /@start[tid]/ { @ns = hist(nsecs - @start[tid]); delete(@start[tid]); }'. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0:

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

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. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

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