SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Apache Kafka is currently the leading project in this area.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. For heavily latency-sensitive use-cases like WebXR, this is a critical component in delivering a good experience. is access to hardware devices. Some commenters appear to confuse unlike hardware for differences in software.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145