Percona

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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.

Database 89

Database Open Source Testing Monitoring 89

Dynatrace

APRIL 2, 2020

Performance has always mattered. With sniffers, network performance engineers were ultimately able to relate wire data performance to what business owners expected from the networks they financed. The network performance engineer who managed the sniffer was the guru. By 2001, we won our first loyal customers.

Network 166

Network Traffic Monitoring Java 166

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In most sectors where risks are understood and perceived as critical, quality assurance inevitably develops. It also led me to write a book about web quality assurance and the forewords of eight more books about UX, ecodesign, CSS, frontend development, amongst others. By the way, now I like wine, from everywhere. Large preview ).

Automotive 140

Automotive Website Social Media Design 140

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

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. Is it dependent on commodity ABAP developers? It was much different in 2008.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. In the 1980s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a revolution in management.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45