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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. What’s causing this massive shift? Compare Costs.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Benchmark before you decide. have been released since then with some major changes. For database servers, we usually recommend our clients have: Jemalloc installed and enabled for MySQL.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". JavaScript benchmark. It's the fastest device I've ever tested.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). ah, vf, yk, il, nl).

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.