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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) that are required to keep the software deployments live are running efficiently.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. The benefit for customers: Authorized users can view this data and therefore manage their inventories across different sites, making the maintenance processes much more efficient.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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HammerDB Best Practice for PostgreSQL Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This limitation is at the database level rather than the hardware level, nevertheless with up to date hardware (from mid-2018) PostgreSQL on a 2 socket system can be expected to deliver more than 2M PostgreSQL TPM and 1M NOPM with the HammerDB TPC-C test. . CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0. hammerdbcli.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

Instead, to support a browser, we want to give the browser what it can handle, in the most efficient way possible. Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. Here at Yahoo!, It’s our job to make sure that they have a great user experience. Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

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