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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. 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.

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Self-Insuring Software Assets

The Agile Manager

When we build software, we don't always buy insurance on the software. For software we build, we underwrite the responsibility for the fact that it will be technically sound and functionally fit, secure and reliable, and will work in the client and server environments where it needs to operate. There is nobody else.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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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. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse. 0% performance overhead.

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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. Server side rendering is a massive boost for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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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. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse. 0% performance overhead.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

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