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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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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). Stay tuned!

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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. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable. Application tuning for InnoDB Make sure your application is prepared to handle deadlocks that may happen.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device.

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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. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. Compare Ease of Use.