Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Register for the webinar.

Open Source 43

Open Source Internet Internet Strategy 43

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

But in 2013 and 2014, it remained stuck at 83% , and while in the ten years since, it has reached 95% , it had become clear that the easy money that came from acquiring more users was ending. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.” The market was maturing. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

However, developers are loathe to do this; turning away users isn't a winning growth strategy, and prompting visitors to switch is passé. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. In these cases, suggesting an alternative beats losing users entirely.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Since 2014 , however, mobile users have been gaining more and more importance. However, conducting online experiments is a fairly inexpensive way to develop better websites, apps, services, and strategies and make decisions not based on intuition, but on scientific data. How To Conduct An Eye-Tracking Study.

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Earlier, he was the CEO and co-founder of Polar ( acquired by Google in 2014 ) and the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Bagcheck ( acquired by Twitter in 2011 ). Luke also founded LukeW Ideation & Design , a product strategy and design consultancy, and he taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

JULY 24, 2022

In this 2014 post, I detailed a way to do this with good old log shipping. In this 2014 post, I detailed a way to do this with good old log shipping. In a similar vein to my favorite post from 2014, I described a method to simulate partitioning – another feature that was Enterprise-only at the time – using filtered indexes.

Servers 66

Servers Strategy Availability Processing 66

CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

To this end, having a solid caching strategy can make all the difference for your visitors. ?? The amount of control we’re granted makes for very intricate and powerful caching strategies. I would always recommend solving your cache busting strategy before even thinking about your caching strategy. Cache Busting.

Cache 264

Cache Latency Strategy Servers 264

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

I think that makes it a valuable strategy to pursue. If we can get a 98% improvement and still have fully compatible interop with existing C++, that would be a holy grail worth serious investment. Finally, please see again the main post’s conclusion: Call(s) to action.

C++ 139

C++ Programming Code Java 139

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

As one of the foremost experts on MySQL strategy and optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Register for the webinar.

Architecture 41

Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

2014) added support for JSONB data type. You can also control the TOAST storage strategy: Extended – Allows for out-of-line storage and compression (using pglz). JSON database in 9.2 was fairly limited (and probably overhyped at that point) – basically a glorified string with some JSON validation thrown in.

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. This is part 2 of our look at Allspaw’s 2015 master thesis (here’s part 1 ). 1:06pm reports of the personalised homepage having issues start appearing from multiple sources.

Internet 53

Internet Internet Cache Engineering 53

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies. This was important because, for large industrial firms, competing on price was the primary strategy for winning market share. By the 1980s, both strategies had begun to lose favor. But the operating benefits weren't there, either.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Any organisation pursuing microservices strategy will find hard to fit a traditional CMS in their ecosystem. 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 ). Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia.

Systems 63

Systems Cache Website Network 63

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. Simchi-Levi, 2014. Fano, 2002. Johnson, B.H.A. Kleinberg, C.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152