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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services

Percona

During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Here we are, with an economic downturn looming globally and some countries facing a recession.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

For example, PDC’s Beskow system has 11 cabinets, 515 blades, 2,060 compute nodes, and a total of 67,456 cores. However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. Exponential growth of supercomputing power. Source: [link].

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

It comes set to SQL Server 2008 compatibility (level 100), but we will start with a more modern setting of SQL Server 2017 (level 140): ALTER DATABASE StackOverflow2013 SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 140 ; The tests were performed on my laptop using SQL Server 2019 CU 2. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. The product management team states what must be done to solve the problem, and the architect describes how to realize that vision in a system. To do so, we borrow metaphors from roles in other industries.

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