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What Happened to HornetQ, the JMS That Shattered Records?

DZone

broke records and defeated top-ranked messaging services in benchmark tests. In 2010, the SPECjms2007 benchmark record was smashed by HornetQ , an open-source enterprise messaging system from JBoss. Why wasn't it widely adopted? When testing a new product, it's important to see how it stacks up against its competition.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” ” – Andy King, 2003.

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How to Optimize Websites for Ad Publishers

Dotcom-Montior

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. And if they did have a poor experience, how would you know for sure?

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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Why Browsers Get Built

Alex Russell

Examples include IE 7+ and Safari from 2010-onward. Distinguishing Traits # Shipped to many OSes Tiny platform teams (<20 people or <10% of the total team) Little benchmark interest or focus No platform feature leadership No standards footprint Platform feature availability lags the underlying engine (e.g.,