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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

The winners will be those that view their business from the eyes of their customers and understand that fast-paced innovation is the key to long-term growth. Especially in manufacturing-based industries, introducing more software that complements hardware can eliminate fixed costs and allow you to quickly scale up to a global level.

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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. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We have learned over time that we should not be afraid to develop our own hardware solutions to ensure our customers can achieve their goals.

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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. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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