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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule - All Things.

All Things Distributed

The papers are from 1987, 1997 and 2007. In 1997 Jim revisted his caculations with the help of Goetz Graefe , and it details the impact of 10 years of hardware and pricing progress. In 2007 Goetz revisited the results, this time also including SSD storage into the mix, which not surprisingly did change everything.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. I hope this helps!

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software. PWA Install Prompts. Shape Detection.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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

The Agile Manager

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer.