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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

Most of the top supercomputers are similar to Frontier, they use AMD or Intel CPUs, with GPU accelerators, and Cray Slingshot or Infiniband networks in a Dragonfly+ configuration. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below. Comparing CXL3.0

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

After all, we’ve been doing that forever with the 2nd-level cache of ORMs , and it is highly encouraged in e.g. the AWS Lambda programming model — which was born on the cloud— to help mitigate function start-up times. The network latency of fetching data over the network, even considering fast data center networks.

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

Programming Languages. When you download the source code for HammerDB you can see that the programming language it is written in is called TCL. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands The xml is well-formed, applying configuration hammerdb>librarycheck Checking database library for Oracle Success.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? Surely any language will do? hammerdbcli auto pgtime.tcl HammerDB CLI v4.4

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). ​​ See ​​ the SQL Server Always On Storage Solution Review program ​​ ( [link] s ql/AlwaysOn ) ​​ for newer information about this topic.

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