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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6 HammerDB CLI v3.1 HammerDB CLI v3.1 HammerDB CLI v3.1

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

A/B testing and panel surveys are used in such cases to get additional data points that improve the precision of the model. A recommender system with multiple objectives was suggested in [JW10] and then developed and tested in practice at a large scale by LinkedIn [RP12]. the action is to introduce a completely new service).

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Pull-the-plug ​​ power ​​ outage testing ​​ Power outage testing ​​ is ​​ a fundamental and critical part of the administrator’s data safety and integrity requirements. ​​ Incorrect configurations lead to data loss.

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