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How It Works: SQL Server 2016 SSE/AVX Support

SQL Server According to Bob

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. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. My recent posts. Reference APIs such as: CryptDecrypt.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Browser vendors fund their industrial-scale software engineering projects through integrations. Search engines pay browser makers for default placement within their products. Despite being largely open source, browsers and their engines are not loss leaders. Safari, in particular, is wildly profitable.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.”

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations. “SQL Server 2016 running on the same hardware as SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008, 2008 R2 or 2005 uses fewer resources and executes a wide range of workloads faster.

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Viewing and Sorting XEvents Efficiently (Code Samples) – XEProfiler

SQL Server According to Bob

The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed. .</param> Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); }.

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PlanAlyzer: assessing threats to the validity of online experiments

The Morning Paper

” The paper ‘ Designing and deploying online field experiments ’ (Bakshy 2014) describes the language and its usage at Facebook (one for The Morning Paper backlog?). PlanOut itself has been ported many programming languages at this point. Causal sufficiency errors. Allowing an unrecorded variable to bias treatment assignment§.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

They often get blindsided by vendor’s pitch and end-up making decision based on some fancy demos (see my post from 2014 on Adobe AEM ). An SSG offers a middle ground between a complex yet modular CMS solution and a simple yet involved hand-coded HTML site. Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia.

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