SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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. A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage.

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. It begins with retrieving the HTML from the server and converting this into the Document Object Model (DOM). Compressing, minifying and caching assets. billion if the site slowed down by just one second.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This 14nm first-generation AMD EPYC 7551 processor has 32 cores and 64 threads, and it works in one or two-socket servers. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. After all, Opens Sans is a Google Font that has to be served from Google’s servers. When served from a local server, Open Sans took 0.530 milliseconds to load.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110