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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. But this would be no ordinary project.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

For more than two decades, the answer to this challenge has proven to be a technology called in-memory computing. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. But this would be no ordinary project.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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