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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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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. This is very efficient, as confirmed by the elapsed time of 13ms (all of which is CPU time). Test Environment. As a reminder, the previous serial plan took 115ms.

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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. Stay tuned! Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-03T14:03:11+00:00.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. It's the official profiler. Many new tools can now be written, and the main toolkit we're working on is [bcc].