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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? ” – Andy King, 2003. High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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WebPageTest API

CSS - Tricks

It is the premier tool in the toolbox of web performance people. I’m willing to bet you know WebPageTest. Maybe you didn’t know that WebPageTest was a side project of one fella, Patrick Meenan, for most of its lifetime, with literal racks of real devices he maintained himself. Linux; Android 6.0.1; Mobile Safari/537.36

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. BLT graphical package extension for metrics for both Linux and Windows. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The basic idea of the framework is to use an economic metric such as gross margin as the optimization objective and consider it a function of possible retailer’s actions such as marketing campaigns or assortment adjustments. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. Applications.

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IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

This wording is intentional: how work is performed reduces the probability of failure. If the governance imperative is to understand that results are being achieved in addition to knowing how they are being achieved, we must consider another key point: what must we do to know with certainty how work is being performed?