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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

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. Tuning with waits and queues is just as applicable to SQL Server performance today as it was back in 2006. Conclusion.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. In the absence of measured data, a model based on a table of default values measured on datacenter systems could be used, taking into account CPU types, power usage efficiency (PUE), and over-all utilization levels.

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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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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size. Introduced in 2006, its popularity peaked around 2013-14 and has been on the decline ever since.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. 2006-01-01 ?

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). If you want to make sure your application works as expected, is inclusive to as many people as possible, runs efficiently, and is well-designed, then testing needs to be a core part of your workflow, whether it’s automated or manual.

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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.