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5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds

Randon ASCII

In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. One benchmark I wrote measured the L2 cache latency. I don’t remember what the L2 cache latency was but do remember that the latency varied depending on which CPU core I ran it on. So, anyway. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

Today we’re excited to announce that we’ve launched yet another POP location to help further supercharge our network’s content delivery speeds. Although both countries are relatively close to one another, they are separated by a distance of approximately 500km, which adds up in terms of latency.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

Source: nameshield.com Why reliable DNS hosting is important Choosing a reliable DNS hosting provider is critical because it can affect everything from the redundancy of your website, speed, and even security. Speed Speed also plays a role with DNS. You can test the DNS lookup time and TTFB with a website speed test tool.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time. Jamstack sites are typically among the fastest on the web.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. Performant – DynamoDB consistently delivers single-digit millisecond latencies even as your traffic volume increases. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions.

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