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Granularity is the extent to which a material or system is composed of distinguishable pieces or grains. It can either refer to the extent to which a larger entity is subdivided, or the extent to which groups of smaller indistinguishable entities have joined together to become larger distinguishable entities.

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Coarse-grained vs fine-grained

What is the difference between coarse-grained and fine-grained? I have searched these terms on Google, but I couldn't find what they mean.
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DateTime precision in NHibernate and support for DateTime2 in NHibernate SchemeExport

I am then using Fluent NHibernate and its automapping feature to map the the following simplified POCO class: public class Foo { public virtual int Id { get; set; } public virtual datetime CreatedDateTime { get; set; } } The…
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How granular should tasks within a story be?

We've been recently implementing Scrum and one of the things we often wonder is the granularity of tasks within stories. A few people inside our company state that ideally those tasks should be very finely grained, that is, every little part that…
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Eventlet/general async I/O task granularity

I am working on a web backend / API provider that grabs realtime data from a 3rd party web API, puts it in a MySQL database and makes it available over an HTTP/JSON API. I am providing the API with flask and working with the DB using SQLAlchemy…
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SOA - How granular should services be to maintain performance?

I am taking over a project to replace an ancient legacy system from the ground up. Before I came on, the company hired a consultant who put together a basic sketch of the system and pushed SOA heavily. This resulted in a long list of "entity…
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What's the default lock granularity in SQL Server?

I've thoroughly read MSDN about table hints and I don't seem to find the locking granularity default. Suppose I have the following query: SELECT TOP (1) * FROM MyTable WITH (UPDLOCK, READPAST) ORDER BY SomeColumn ASC; You see, I specified UPDLOCK…
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Meaning of granularity in OOP

I was reading about the flyweight design pattern on this page. I was not able to understand the meaning of the "granularity" in the context of programming languages or the design pattern. Can anyone please explain, an example would be great.
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gnuplot: only integer values on axis x

How can I visualize on axis x only the integer values? I plot the function described in a file like this 0 0.5 1 0.25 2 0.125 3 0.0625 4 0 whit these commands: set xrange [0:4] plot "./data_file" using 1:2 with line lw 2 The problem is…
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Get memory granularity of a processor

How to get the memory granularity of a CPU in C? Suppose I want to allocate an array where all the elements are properly memory aligned. I can pad each element to a certain size N to achieve this. How do I know the value of N? Note: I am trying to…
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Showing NTFS timestamp with 100 nsec granularity

I understand that the FAT file system stores its time stamps for files (modify date, etc.) with a 2 second granularity, and NTFS stores them with a 100 nsec granularity. I'm using VBScript with FileSystemObject to show file details. The function…
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Granularization of models?

I'm developing a CMS largely based on Zend Framework components. Some of the database tables for this CMS are as followed: site | id | name | ------------- locale | languageCode | regionCode | ----------------------------- site_locale // link…
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Equivalent of dwAllocationGranularity in Linux?

What is the equivalent of dwAllocationGranularity in Linux? In Windows, it's defined as: The granularity for the starting address at which virtual memory can be allocated. Note that this is not the same thing as PAGE_SIZE, which is the granularity…
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Java function to preserve the granularity

I need to keep the granularity in a fuzzy job so I made a function which receives as parameters: the granularity (a double between 0 and 1, 0 not included) the value to transform, if necessary (it's a double greater than 0) And returns a new value…
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segmentGranularity in Druid indexing task; exact meaning & implication during indexing

I still don't quite get this "segmentGranularity" in Druid. This page is quite ambiguous: http://druid.io/docs/latest/design/segments.html . It goes on mentioning segmentGranularity but it talks more about intervals (in the first paragraph). Anyway,…
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R Dygraphs X-axis granularity from monthly to yearly

I'm using dygraphs and would like to change the x axis granularity from daily to yearly. I have a few daily data points all in the format c("2009-01-01", "2010-01-01", "2011-01-01"), and the x axis ticks appears at Jan 2009, June 2009, Jan 2010,…
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