All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. Query String based Caching: the ability to include query string parameters as part of the objects cache key. URL based configuration: the ability to configure cache behaviors based on URL path patterns.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

I always check backups first when looking at a new system. What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. Memory settings. Statistics. Index maintenance. SQL Server Agent alerts.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. or newer release.

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Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 9, 2019

With these added libraries and subsequent plugins came added page weight, and before long we were starting to think seriously about front-end performance. They’d take the hit for the first site to use the file, but then it would sit in their local browser cache and downloads could be skipped for each subsequent site.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Maintaining layouts became a particular pain point for static sites.

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