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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults

Percona

After some time of receiving these messages, eventually, they hit performance issues to the point that the server becomes unresponsive for a few minutes. The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. After that, things went back to normal.

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 1

SQL Performance

I would like to share a couple of recent examples that help illustrate how using deprecated SQL Server features continues to bite us. The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

With Helsinki being the capital and most populous municipality of Finland, it makes for a great edge server location. Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency. This is a massive increase from year 2000 when only 37.2%

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Top 3 Challenges in Cross Browser Testing and How to Tackle Them

Testsigma

For example, creating and maintaining the selenium grid, you can leverage the servers of this tool online and just focus on writing the tests. This kind of approach is although a victim of latency and delayed execution. This leaves the developer and tester with just selecting and analyzing the website on these browsers.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008).

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008).

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Server Power Consumption (Source: Intel Labs 2008).

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