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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. But over time, something went very wrong.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. 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.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. 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.

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

Energy 40
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Service Workers can save the environment!

Dean Hume

Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. Each HTTP request that is required for the page needs to travel over the network and in turn this consumes energy on both the server and client. It’s a win-win all round!

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