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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. RIM exited the handset business in 2016. RIM initially doubled down on their core product, but eventually scotched their proprietary OS in favor of Android. Neither strategy paid off.

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The SQL Server Basic Installer: Just Install It!

SQL Server According to Bob

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. For the more adventurous/technical, the top (table of processes) command provides similar metrics on most Unix-like operating systems such as macOS and Ubuntu.

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Monitor web applications from within your corporate network

Dynatrace

For detailed prerequisites, hardware requirements, and installation guidelines, see our help page for browser monitors in private locations. Q: Is there a plan to support more operating systems? Support for newer versions of these systems will be introduced as well. A: We currently support Ubuntu Server 16.04

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Beginning with SQL Server 2016, you can now specify similar logic based on fragmentation levels.

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Software-defined far memory in warehouse scale computers

The Morning Paper

” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. Using zswap means that no new hardware solutions are required, enabling rapid deployment across clusters. The far memory system has been deployed in production since 2016. Evaluation.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

The operating system signals completion when the I/O stack finishes the request. Linux provides different system calls (syscall)/commands for asynchronous behavior. Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations. You can explore your system using the df and lsblk commands.

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