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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

Transparent Huge Pages (THP) is a memory management feature in Linux operating systems that aims to enhance system performance. The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

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Revamp MySQL Query Optimization and Overcome Slowness of ORDER BY with LIMIT Queries

Percona

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. While sorting may seem simple, it’s important to understand how to do it efficiently and effectively to ensure your queries are optimized and use better indexing.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

The latter role has been historically de facto granted because business systems are substantially technology systems, hence IT has had a direct (if unforseen and unofficial) hand in business process re-engineering, partner management, and compliance certification. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Java used to power core file system code. What is your system used for?