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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. 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. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. Tap for a larger version.

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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). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

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