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What Adrian Did Next — Part 4 — how I helped Netflix launch on iPad and iPhone — 2007 to 2010

Adrian Cockcroft

I went to the launch event, got an iPhone on day 1, and when Apple finally shipped their SDK in March 2008 I was in the first wave of people who signed up as an iOS developer. In September 2008 Netflix ran an internal hack day event. We currently have four of them around the house and I still have my day 1 iPad in storage somewhere.

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

The Morning Paper

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. What is a distributed storage backend? SOSP’19. This is not surprising in hindsight.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule - All Things.

All Things Distributed

The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb , Jim Gray and Goetz Graefe, ACM SIGMOD Record 26 (4): 63â??68, Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). . | Permalink.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: The Foundations of Blockchain

All Things Distributed

Blockchain technology first came on the scene in 2008, as a core component of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Finally, the 96 paper by Ross Anderson describes a decentralized storage system, from which recorded updates cannot be deleted. I hope these will enlighten your fundamental understanding of blockchain technology. "

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year.

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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services

Percona

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.