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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. 10 x 1.9TB NVMe SSD.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

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

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

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. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

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