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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

The wildcard index, which was beneficial at the beginning to make things more flexible, ended instead in a serious bottleneck for the performance, causing more memory utilization and swapping. This way, we can store everything we need. This way, we can store everything we need. Now, we can benefit from the index to execute any kind of query.

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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. Kazar, Sherri G.

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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. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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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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Fast Enough

Tim Kadlec

In his book, “Designing and Engineering Time” , Steven Seow talks about the 20% rule. Pairing these aggressive numbers alongside the conservative targets derived from comparison gives you an acceptable range to target for your site (handy to get you started with a performance budget ). Then, rank yourself to see where you stack up.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

With Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant, Asanovic made a strong case for the new vertical semiconductor business model where custom chip designs are needed for vertically integrated markets. In particular, she highlighted her transformative MIT’78 VLSI System Design Course she designed and taught as a Visiting Professor of EECS at MIT.

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. Opportunity fundamentals III: speculative.