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Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
SQL Performance
JUNE 21, 2019
I've been teaching and writing about common SQL Server mistakes for many years. This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. SQL Server Agent alerts. I always check backups first when looking at a new system. Statistics.
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SQL Performance
JULY 16, 2019
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. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon.
SQL Server According to Bob
JUNE 6, 2016
As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. SQL Server asks the CPU if it supports SSE or AVX in order to determine the level of hardware support present on the system.
Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP
Brendan Gregg
JULY 4, 2021
I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.
Brendan Gregg
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%
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