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. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware. – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration.

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Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1."

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Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. I’m using the “Airlines On-Time Performance” database from [link] (You can find the scripts I used here: [link] ). With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) MySQL on ec2.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 48

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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?”. I wrote a blog in 2016 that discussed the need for businesses to flip the traditional monitoring investment pyramid on its head.

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. We usually relate SQL to querying tables in relational databases. Leverage your SQL knowledge. But what is a table?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. The Back Story. Fua = Forced Unit Access.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73