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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

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

Many of the software programs have a web version in some form or other. Web apps allow you to break the traditional constraints of the desktop and mobile operating systems and provide freedom to experiment with different varieties of software. It efficiently separated business and user interface allowing ample flexibility for changes.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the software product or service under test. Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). What is testing?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Think about policy renewal operations at insurance companies, or specialized software developers working in silos: they are information workers, but they are on an information assembly line, doing piecework and passing it onto the next person. "[Big Ironically, it had the opposite effect.