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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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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.)

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

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. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

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

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. for November 2010 was released and an Amazon EC2 Cluster Compute Instance based cluster came in at #231. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. All Things Distributed.

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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.,

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Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. We only need to hold the line on script bloat for a few years for devices and networks to overtake the extreme, unconscionable excesses of the 2010's. A 2021 Global Baseline.