SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

20+ years ago when I joined Microsoft I was handed a diskette (maybe it was two), and was told “Here is SQL Server. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 There was a GUI as part of setup but within just a few clicks, SQL Server was installed and ready for use. So now there are more choices to make when installing SQL Server.

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This blog post will walk you through how MySQL’s InnoDB redo log archiving uses PXB to manage the redo log files on the busiest systems and look at how a new feature released in PXB version 8.0.34-29 Enabling redo log archiving on the server requires setting a value for the innodb_redo_log_archive_dirs system variable.

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C++ Servers Storage Speed 101

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

This blog takes you through the debugging journey, refreshing us on old concepts and introducing some new ones. Failures occur from remote clients or sqlcmd executed directory on the server (/opt/mssql-tools/bin). SQL Server 2017 CU10 does not show behavior. · SQL Server 2017 CU12 exhibits the behavior. Network Trace.

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Servers Network Database Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. High Performance Browser Networking. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.” Time is Money.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. In 2016, O’Reilly published “ Designing For Sustainability ” by Tim Frick.

Website Performance 74

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 74

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

from wpostats, 2016 ). The factors that impact on LCP: Slow origin server response times Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS on page load Page Resource load times User side page rendering. Role of web servers in page load time –. You must have been suggested to choose a fast web server for better performance and reliable uptime.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. The future of HTTP/2 server push. Jake Archibald. ” He shares information about UX issues and the latest news from Chrome, with a web performance slant.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SQL Server 2016 brought us STRING_SPLIT , a native function that eliminates the need for many of the custom solutions we’ve needed before. I’ve written several articles about this function (and STRING_AGG, which arrived in SQL Server 2017) since this post was written: Performance Surprises and Assumptions : STRING_SPLIT().

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C++ Servers Testing Database 59

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

bpftrace has most of DTrace's capabilities and more. ## bpftrace The prior work that led to [bpftrace] (aka BPFtrace) is discussed my earlier [DTrace for Linux 2016] post, which explains how the Linux kernel gained [eBPF]: the virtual machine that we're using to run tracing programs. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. eBPF does more.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. 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

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. Vadim published a blog post about analyzing reddit comments with ClickHouse. So can we use it as our main datastore?

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Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

WordPress came a long way from its start as a simple blog writing tool. Because of its history and for being sort of a fork of an old blogging platform called “b2” (more details here ), it’s largely written in a procedural way (using function-based code). on December 6th, 2016. Denis Žoljom. 2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00.

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Cache Website Speed Database 79

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We haven’t tried out SAR yet since it was only pre-announced, but when we do we’ll give an update here, on the blog. without web app servers?—?to to a massively distributed CDN network a possibility. There have been some improvements since re:Invent 2016 but to see nothing announced at this re:Invent was very disappointing.

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Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Content Management APIs have been a blessing where we automated the import of over 2,000 blog posts from a WordPress site to a headless CMS.

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