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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019. The Death of Tick-Tock.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Jake Archibald. ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano.

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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." Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The modern industrial service economy has a few knowledge workers, and lots and lots of drones.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Mitigating Capability Risk

The Agile Manager

2 Given the significant contribution of technology to just about every business solution, IT risk management is a critical practice. It is subsequently highly likely that there will be new or emergent technologies applied, if not outright invented, over the course of delivery. But IT risk management practices are not mature.