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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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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. Today, developers of technology (for example medical technology, software) and platform operators (social media enablers, credit card companies) are at the top.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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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. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today.

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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). ​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. The following are a few reasons this error may be encountered.

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