All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. ve talked about performance and availability in Amazon Redshift before. Amazon Redshift can also be set up to encrypt all data at rest using hardware-accelerated AES-256. All Things Distributed.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. It makes organizing code easier.

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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.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). This is the first time any server vendor has even bothered to submit a TPC-E result for an AMD-based system since 2013. If we divide 7012.53 Higher memory density/capacity.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. The following examples use the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ), with a single index added: CREATE INDEX PP ON dbo. Both calculations are performed over the per-thread truncated millisecond values.

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. There are a wide range of tools and extensions for every conceivable scenario, like performance profiling, auditing, etc. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. Oracle Ease of Use.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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