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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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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. AWS has developed a unique skill to innovate datacenter layout and operations, such that we can have flexible network infrastructure that can be adapted to meet the needs of our customers’ workloads, whatever they may be.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. In order to create change across our entire organization, we needed to get all the relevant employees, partners, and even customers up to speed about performance quickly and efficiently.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Thomas, 2006. McFadden, 1974. Fano, 2002.

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Zombie Businesses

The Agile Manager

These investments made operations a source of competitiveness by lowering costs, increasing efficiency, and making businesses more responsive to customers. The people who got salary bumps in the boom years from 2006 through 2008 became "high-salary outliers" in 2009. The third use was financial restructuring and building reserves.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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