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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Vitruvius and the principles of architecture. Architecture begins when someone has a nontrivial problem to be solved. Solid doesn't mean inflexible.

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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The State Of Web Workers In 2021

Smashing Magazine

The web is streaming, meaning it has none of the resources locally available when you open an app for the first time. This is such a fundamental difference, that many architectural choices from native platforms don’t easily apply to the web — if at all. But regardless of where you look, multithreading is used everywhere.

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Expanding the Cloud ? Provisioned IOPS for Amazon RDS - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. By the way, for mission critical OLTP workloads, you should also consider adding the Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option to improve availability. Being able to get consistent performance from the database tier has a huge impact on the application architecture. s architecture.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. Google, for example, invented the Large Language model architecture that underlies today’s disruptive AI startups. Available at: [link].

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Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Customers tell us they poll SQS quickly because they want to retrieve messages as soon as they become available. With long polling, SQS instead waits for a message to become available and sends it to the client if the message arrives within a customer-defined time period.