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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. 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. Clearly we need to keep talking about it. We need to understand how ever-growing pages work against us.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Cuellar, M.

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