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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". However, some seem to have missed Davidson's point regarding the importance of resources and rely almost entirely on waits to present a picture of query performance and system health.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

The usual technique for modeling fuzzy systems is Monte Carlo analysis, which computes with distributions rather than precise values. Energy data can be obtained from power delivery systems in datacenters or from intelligent plugs or power strips.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

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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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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. Build evolvable systems. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. Expect the unexpected.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

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. Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. And we can’t deny that.