Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 27, 2025

In part 3 I mentioned that I had developed some phone based apps while at eBay Research Labs in 2006, and I had also become involved in the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club , where a bunch of people got together in their spare time to try and build a phone that would be programmable by anyone. I built two more iOS apps that worked with Netflix.

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DZone

MARCH 20, 2024

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We have learned over time that we should not be afraid to develop our own hardware solutions to ensure our customers can achieve their goals.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 29, 2017

Especially in manufacturing-based industries, introducing more software that complements hardware can eliminate fixed costs and allow you to quickly scale up to a global level. In this case, it offers ways for wind farm operators to operate and maintain their sites from any location using cloud solutions.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1% small (thanks @cperciva ). ## 3.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Vimeo also has a continually growing user base.

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