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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. How Availability Zones have changed over the years.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. 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.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. ​​ All rights reserved.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Almost from day one, we knew that the software we were building would not be the software that would be running a year later. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance.