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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

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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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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. 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. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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