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A lot of things happened in that past months that were worthwhile writing about. New distributed systems and architectural insights, great conversations, new gadgets, good books, interesting articles and conferences, and some very cool new Amazon.com technologies (e.g. Mechanical Turk and the public access to Alexa). However I thought that it was appropriate to first move the weblog from the Cornell servers to a personal place MORE
I have redirected the rss & atom feeds at weblogs.cs.cornell.edu to the their new home at [link] I used a permanent redirect so I am hoping that bloglines and other aggregators will eventually figure out that they should start polling those feeds directly instead of continue to be redirected by the old site MORE
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It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. MORE
It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. MORE
There are two online technology essay writers who I truly enjoy reading: Scott Berkun and Paul Graham. Paul is probably the more well known of the two given his Hacker and Painters book, but I think that both have a unique insights in the software industry and the development process. MORE
I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. Permalink. Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. MORE
StructureMap and Castle Windsor were released in 2004, Spring.NET in 2005, and more after that, each with their own unique API, some more opinionated than others. The history of dependency injection (DI) containers in.NET is almost as long as.NET itself. MORE
Let’s say you have a calendar of events, and all you want to retrieve all the events that occurred between 2005 and 2007. Getting all the year spans where the value is between 2005 and 2007 is easy. 2005]. >=2005 and. ’ operators versus the ‘ ’ operators because we want to also return values in the years 2005 and 2007. Welcome to the second part of my look at XPath and how it can be used in Javascript. MORE
The oldest change in the entire Linux repo dates back to 2005, when Linus imported Linux 2.6.12-rc2, and this change predates that. Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. Linux load averages track not just runnable tasks, but also tasks in the uninterruptible sleep state. I've never seen an explanation. MORE
I started coding web pages in about 2005 and began my web development career in Moscow, Russia, joining a biotech startup. MORE
CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.375 Synchronized I/O Data Integrity Completion. Refer to the ISO documentation on file integrity for complete details: CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.376 Synchronized I/O File Integrity Completion. Overview. SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. MORE
Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but MORE
The fundamentals of row mode parallel execution haven’t changed since SQL Server 2005, so the following discussion is broadly applicable. This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up. MORE
I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Beau Hartshorne. MORE
Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. "Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. MORE
The Lotus Elise wasn’t imported by Lotus until 2005, so I had one of just a handful of these cars in the USA for several years. The day that I gave the founder of Tesla a ride in my Lotus Elise in return for a ride in his T-Zero prototype My Elise at a track day?—?Laguna MORE
Since the inception of the OUTPUT clause for modification statements in SQL Server 2005, it turned out to be a very practical tool whenever you wanted to return data from modified rows. My good friend Aaron Bertrand inspired me to write this article. He reminded me of how sometimes we take things for granted when they seem obvious to us and don't always bother checking the full story behind them. MORE
Acid 2 came around in April of 2005 and tested for support for things like HTML, CSS2.x Well that didn’t take long. It was just announced today that Opera’s developers have received the first 100 ⁄ 100 test score on the new Acid 3 test. There is apparently a small rendering glitch they still need to take care of, but this is really incredible progress considering the test was just formally announced on March 3rd. MORE
According to an article published by smallbizgenius , in 2019, the number of people who work from home has increased by 140% since 2005. Remote work has been steadily gaining popularity for some years now. MORE
T-SQL supports it starting with SQL Server 2005. This article is the fifth part in a series about table expressions. In Part 1 I provided the background to table expressions. In Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4 , I covered both the logical and the optimization aspects of derived tables. MORE
2005: Fiona Apple , Extraordinary Machine. I might have picked Fiona Apple again, but she already has a 2005 spot. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Permalink. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life." MORE
Back in 2005, the W3C pointed out that third party services had demonstrated that most captcha services could be defeated with 88%-100% accuracy by using some simple OCR. A brief exchange on Twitter led me to think about one of the things I most definitely do not love about the internet—captchas. MORE
The Lotus Elise wasn’t imported by Lotus until 2005, so I had one of just a handful of these cars in the USA for several years. The day that I gave the founder of Tesla a ride in my Lotus Elise in return for a ride in his T-Zero prototype My Elise at a track day?—?Laguna MORE
Obviously, you don’t need to make your website look like it’s from 2005. If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds. MORE
In some instances, libdivide can even be more efficient than compilers because it uses an approach introduced by Robison (2005) where we not only use multiplications and shifts, but also an addition to avoid arithmetic overflows. Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications. MORE
“SQL Server 2016 running on the same hardware as SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2005 uses fewer resources and executes a wide range of workloads faster. SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. MORE
Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but MORE
Overview of Default trace in SQL Server Starting from SQL Server 2005, SQL Server captures a few critical events in the default traces. […]. It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters. DBAtools Monitoring Reports MORE
The result was a cover which went on to win the New York Art Director's Club medal and was placed at number fifteen in the American Society of Magazine Editor’s 2005 list of Top 40 Magazine Covers. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Andrew Clarke. 2019-10-03T14:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-03T13:18:03+00:00. MORE
Reporting Server Configuration Details: SQL Server Version: SQL Server 2005 […]. Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance. General DBA Performance Tuning index re-indexing Update Statistics MORE
Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Various changes from automatic soft NUMA to CMemThread partitioning have muddied the water around the trace flag –T8048 messaging. Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects. MORE
When I first joined ThoughtWorks in 2005, one of our core messages was to solve an “outer quadrant” problem first - something in the problem space that is difficult and complex. In recent days, I’ve been reminded of some core company values, once fresh and different, later taken for granted. MORE
From 1975 to 2005, our industry accomplished a phenomenal mission: In 30 years, we put a personal computer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. In 2005, our industry undertook a new mission: to put a personal parallel supercomputer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket. MORE
Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but MORE
From our origins in 2005, we quickly established ourselves as a leader in APM. Dynatrace news. Today marks a special moment for Dynatrace as we list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DT.” This event marks a significant moment in time, but we are not just focused on today, it is the foundation that we have built for success tomorrow that is even more exciting. I’m proud to share this moment with our 2,000+ Dynatracers. MORE
The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests MORE
Features Simple and fast routing engine Comes with its own CLI Powerful template system (Blade) Good documentation CakePHP CakePHP is one of the first PHP frameworks to be released back in 2005. There are a myriad of options available when choosing which backend framework you want to work with. Although each backend framework comes with its own set of pros and cons, there are also a few other factors you’ll want to take into consideration before making a final decision. MORE
As the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, you will find that visibility into the SQL Server I/O subsystem has been significantly increased. SQL Server copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005. MORE
Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications. MORE
The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. MORE
When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store. 15 years is a long time in the world of technology. MORE
Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. MORE
in 2005. Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. MORE
Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications. MORE
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I have redirected the rss & atom feeds at weblogs.cs.cornell.edu to the their new home at [link] I used a permanent redirect so I am hoping that bloglines and other aggregators will eventually figure out that they should start polling those feeds directly instead of continue to be redirected by the old site
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A lot of things happened in that past months that were worthwhile writing about. New distributed systems and architectural insights, great conversations, new gadgets, good books, interesting articles and conferences, and some very cool new Amazon.com technologies (e.g. Mechanical Turk and the public access to Alexa). However I thought that it was appropriate to first move the weblog from the Cornell servers to a personal place
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DECEMBER 8, 2005
There are two online technology essay writers who I truly enjoy reading: Scott Berkun and Paul Graham. Paul is probably the more well known of the two given his Hacker and Painters book, but I think that both have a unique insights in the software industry and the development process.
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When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store. 15 years is a long time in the world of technology.
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Overview of Default trace in SQL Server Starting from SQL Server 2005, SQL Server captures a few critical events in the default traces. […]. It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters. DBAtools Monitoring Reports
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In some instances, libdivide can even be more efficient than compilers because it uses an approach introduced by Robison (2005) where we not only use multiplications and shifts, but also an addition to avoid arithmetic overflows. Not all instructions on modern processors cost the same. Additions and subtractions are cheaper than multiplications which are themselves cheaper than divisions. For this reason, compilers frequently replace division instructions by multiplications.
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Reporting Server Configuration Details: SQL Server Version: SQL Server 2005 […]. Recently we started experiencing a very strange issue in our production reporting environment where the Re-indexing and Update Statistics operation suddenly began taking more than 2 days to complete and was thus causing blockage in the database which in turn caused impairment in application performance. General DBA Performance Tuning index re-indexing Update Statistics
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The Lotus Elise wasn’t imported by Lotus until 2005, so I had one of just a handful of these cars in the USA for several years. The day that I gave the founder of Tesla a ride in my Lotus Elise in return for a ride in his T-Zero prototype My Elise at a track day?—?Laguna
Adrian Cockcroft
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The Lotus Elise wasn’t imported by Lotus until 2005, so I had one of just a handful of these cars in the USA for several years. The day that I gave the founder of Tesla a ride in my Lotus Elise in return for a ride in his T-Zero prototype My Elise at a track day?—?Laguna
SQL Server According to Bob
JANUARY 11, 2020
As the administrator of a SQL Server 2005 installation, you will find that visibility into the SQL Server I/O subsystem has been significantly increased. SQL Server copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005.
SQL Performance
MARCH 30, 2021
The fundamentals of row mode parallel execution haven’t changed since SQL Server 2005, so the following discussion is broadly applicable. This five-part series takes a deep dive into the way SQL Server row mode parallel plans start up.
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FEBRUARY 22, 2021
The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests
ScaleOut Software
JUNE 22, 2020
Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.
ScaleOut Software
JUNE 22, 2020
Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.
Testsigma
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According to an article published by smallbizgenius , in 2019, the number of people who work from home has increased by 140% since 2005. Remote work has been steadily gaining popularity for some years now.
Sutter's Mill
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From 1975 to 2005, our industry accomplished a phenomenal mission: In 30 years, we put a personal computer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. In 2005, our industry undertook a new mission: to put a personal parallel supercomputer on every desk, in every home, and in every pocket.
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in 2005. Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives.
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I founded Instant Domain Search in 2005 and kept it as a side-hustle while I worked on a Y Combinator company (Snipshot, W06), before working as a software engineer at Facebook. How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study). Beau Hartshorne.
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Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. "Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters.
The Agile Manager
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When I first joined ThoughtWorks in 2005, one of our core messages was to solve an “outer quadrant” problem first - something in the problem space that is difficult and complex. In recent days, I’ve been reminded of some core company values, once fresh and different, later taken for granted.
Particular Software
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StructureMap and Castle Windsor were released in 2004, Spring.NET in 2005, and more after that, each with their own unique API, some more opinionated than others. The history of dependency injection (DI) containers in.NET is almost as long as.NET itself.
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Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.
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2005: Fiona Apple , Extraordinary Machine. I might have picked Fiona Apple again, but she already has a 2005 spot. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Permalink. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."
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AUGUST 12, 2020
T-SQL supports it starting with SQL Server 2005. This article is the fifth part in a series about table expressions. In Part 1 I provided the background to table expressions. In Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4 , I covered both the logical and the optimization aspects of derived tables.
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Since the inception of the OUTPUT clause for modification statements in SQL Server 2005, it turned out to be a very practical tool whenever you wanted to return data from modified rows. My good friend Aaron Bertrand inspired me to write this article. He reminded me of how sometimes we take things for granted when they seem obvious to us and don't always bother checking the full story behind them.
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Features Simple and fast routing engine Comes with its own CLI Powerful template system (Blade) Good documentation CakePHP CakePHP is one of the first PHP frameworks to be released back in 2005. There are a myriad of options available when choosing which backend framework you want to work with. Although each backend framework comes with its own set of pros and cons, there are also a few other factors you’ll want to take into consideration before making a final decision.
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Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Various changes from automatic soft NUMA to CMemThread partitioning have muddied the water around the trace flag –T8048 messaging. Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects.
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AUGUST 1, 2019
From our origins in 2005, we quickly established ourselves as a leader in APM. Dynatrace news. Today marks a special moment for Dynatrace as we list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “DT.” This event marks a significant moment in time, but we are not just focused on today, it is the foundation that we have built for success tomorrow that is even more exciting. I’m proud to share this moment with our 2,000+ Dynatracers.
SQL Server According to Bob
JUNE 3, 2016
“SQL Server 2016 running on the same hardware as SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2005 uses fewer resources and executes a wide range of workloads faster. SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2017
It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.
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DECEMBER 18, 2018
CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.375 Synchronized I/O Data Integrity Completion. Refer to the ISO documentation on file integrity for complete details: CSA ISO/IEC 9945-1:2005 (R2009) 3.376 Synchronized I/O File Integrity Completion. Overview. SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2.
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Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but
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Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but
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APRIL 24, 2018
Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. The title of this article might seem like clickbait - but bear with me. Using service workers can actually reduce the amount of energy that users that visit your website consume. I may have lured you in with the false pretence of saving the environment….but
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Let’s say you have a calendar of events, and all you want to retrieve all the events that occurred between 2005 and 2007. Getting all the year spans where the value is between 2005 and 2007 is easy. 2005]. >=2005 and. ’ operators versus the ‘ ’ operators because we want to also return values in the years 2005 and 2007. Welcome to the second part of my look at XPath and how it can be used in Javascript.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 17, 2011
I have regenerated all pages since 2005, the pages before that can be found in the "/historical" section. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2011 11:40 AM. Permalink. Comments (). As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3.
MachMetrics
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
Obviously, you don’t need to make your website look like it’s from 2005. If you asked the average internet user how slow a website would need to load before they gave up and left, they might say something like 8 or 10 seconds.
Brendan Gregg
AUGUST 8, 2017
The oldest change in the entire Linux repo dates back to 2005, when Linus imported Linux 2.6.12-rc2, and this change predates that. Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. Linux load averages track not just runnable tasks, but also tasks in the uninterruptible sleep state. I've never seen an explanation.
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JANUARY 31, 2016
The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.
Smashing Magazine
OCTOBER 3, 2019
The result was a cover which went on to win the New York Art Director's Club medal and was placed at number fifteen in the American Society of Magazine Editor’s 2005 list of Top 40 Magazine Covers. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Inspired Design Decisions: Bea Feitler, An Unstoppable Creative Force. Andrew Clarke. 2019-10-03T14:30:59+02:00. 2019-10-03T13:18:03+00:00.
Brendan Gregg
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.
Tim Kadlec
JANUARY 4, 2011
Back in 2005, the W3C pointed out that third party services had demonstrated that most captcha services could be defeated with 88%-100% accuracy by using some simple OCR. A brief exchange on Twitter led me to think about one of the things I most definitely do not love about the internet—captchas.
Tim Kadlec
MARCH 26, 2008
Acid 2 came around in April of 2005 and tested for support for things like HTML, CSS2.x Well that didn’t take long. It was just announced today that Opera’s developers have received the first 100 ⁄ 100 test score on the new Acid 3 test. There is apparently a small rendering glitch they still need to take care of, but this is really incredible progress considering the test was just formally announced on March 3rd.
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