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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. It seems unrealistic wanting the best of both world (speed and reliability) but the field of software engineering established during the past decade that speed and reliability can both be achieved.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

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Does SQL Server 2016 Require Trace Flag -T8048?

SQL Server According to Bob

Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The three types of CMemThread partitioning and associated details are described in my previous post: [link].

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How We Improved Our Core Web Vitals (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

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. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console. We still have a lot of work to do! Large preview ).

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

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. Robert Dorr – SQL Server – Principle Software Engineer Editing Assistance – Nathan Dorr.

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