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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). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020. Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. In 2012, Amazon opened its first Italian office and its first Italian point of presence (PoP) based in Milan. million unique visits.

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments ().

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Deprecated features to take out of your toolbox – Part 1

SQL Performance

Recently one of our teams was investigating a log reader latency issue. We pay a lot of attention to latency here, along with any long-running transactions, because of downstream impact to technologies that use the log reader – like Availability Groups and transactional replication. dm_os_performance_counters.

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

This Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and it will provide even lower latency to users across the Middle East. We already have 44 Availability Zones across 16 geographic Regions that customers can use today. This news marks the 22nd AWS Region we have announced globally.

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Expanding the Cloud ? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. They must deal with the increased latency and unreliability inherent in remote communication. Tasks can be long-running, may fail, may timeout and may complete with varying throughputs and latencies. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? The Amazon Simple Workflow Service.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Modern network performance and availability. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. Sadly, data on latency is harder to get, even from Google's perch, so progress there is somewhat more difficult to judge.