DL980 Configuration Guidance published
The Asian CAT team, together with Jimmy May (The Aspiring geek himself), the MS PFE SAP team and HP have published a very interesting blog about DL980 configuration: Customer Proof of Concept on New HP...
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SQLBits and Phones
My presentation from SQLBits: “Finding the Limits: The Grade of The Steel” should be online soon. There is a lot of stuff to blog about and so little time to do it. It was some fun days of tuning as...
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Don’t Become a One trick Architect
We are near the dawn of a new workload: BigData. While some people say that “it is always darkest just before the dawn”. I beg to differ: I think it is darkest just before it goes pitch black. Have a...
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How to Properly Wipe and Return a Laptop
This week, I had the chance to experience something that is a rare occurrence: returning a laptop to my employer. Microsoft has been good to me, and I wanted to make sure I properly returned the laptop...
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One Million IOPS on a 2 socket server
Today, using Fusion ioMemory technology, I worked with our team of experts to hit 1M 4K random read IOPS on Windows. We did this on a 2-socket Sandy Bridge Server. Below is the screenshot to prove it:...
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Synchronisation in .NET– Part 2:Unsafe Data Structures and Padding
In the previous blog post we saw how the lock() statement in .NET scales very poorly when there is a contention on a data structure. It was clear that a performance logging framework that relies on an...
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