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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available MongoDB database alternative, giving you a single solution that combines the best and most important enterprise components from the open source community, designed and tested to work together. This way, we can store everything we need. This way, we can store everything we need.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

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The Safe Haven of Regulation

The Agile Manager

True, both IBM and Microsoft were subject to regulation in 1956 and 2001, respectively, to limit their monopolistic powers. As a move designed to defend their greatest asset - data - regulating key aspects of the business under the auspices of financial services would be pretty shrewd indeed.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

When delving into the concept of website quality assurance back in 2001, we started with a simple question: “What does quality mean for the users?”. VPTCS model © Élie Sloïm — Éric Gateau — 2001 — www.opquast.com. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. By the way, now I like wine, from everywhere. Large preview ).

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What I Read in 2011

Tim Kadlec

Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith. Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte ( See my review ). Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson. CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm. Designing for Emotion by Aaron Walter.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I made major contributions to two Sun Blueprints books on Resource Management (1999) with Richard McDougall, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, and Jim Bialaski, and Capacity Planning for Internet Services (2001) with Bill Walker. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”.

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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

In his book, “Designing and Engineering Time” , Steven Seow talks about the 20% rule. As UIE pointed out back in 2001 , task completion has a huge impact on perceived performance. Then do the same for key pages for 10 competitors or so. If you’re doing a redesign, analyze your existing site as well. Don’t stop with launch.

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