SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 22, 2016

Prior to SQL Server 2016 the trace flag –T8048 is used to upgrade (only) NUMA partitioned, CMemThread objects to CPU partitioned based objects. Keep in mind that the vast majority of CMemThread objects (SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, Azure DB and 2016) are not partitioned. Trace flag –T8048 longer exists in SQL Server 2016.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 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. While agile development / DevOps become mainstream nowadays, their integration with performance testing is just making first steps.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2022

As patient care continues to evolve, IT teams have accelerated this shift from legacy, on-premises systems to cloud technology to more build, test, and deploy software, and fuel healthcare innovation. This is a critical challenge: When software breaks, finding the root cause of the problem may take time, fuel finger-pointing among teams.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases. Ryan Stonecipher – Principle SQL Server Software Engineer. SQL Server 2016.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 6, 2016

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Else use Software algorithms. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Bulk Import.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. A container is a small, self-contained, fully functional software package that can run an application or service, isolated from other applications running on the same host.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. As data from different corners of the enterprise proliferates, teams need a better way to bring data together to identify performance and security issues, minimize security risk, and drive greater business value.

Cloud 180

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 180

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. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

The most forward-thinking teams want to take a “shift-left” approach to their security practices, engaging security practices and testing as early as possible in the software development life cycle. Speed: Users won’t give organizations a pass on slow performance just because they’re trying to enhance security.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 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. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

OpenTelemetry (also referred to as OTel) is an open-source observability framework made up of a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs, that enables IT teams to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data for analysis and understand software performance and behavior. OpenTelemetry reference architecture. Read eBook now!

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer. population were affected over the one year period between June 2016 to June 2017 under the conservative and inclusive regimes, respectively. The outputs from the lasso model (both performed similarly) are re-scaled and rounded to yield integer weights from 1 to 10.

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Software Software Strategy Design 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity. The new GV100 packs 7.4

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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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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Despite the deprecation of SQL Profiler several years ago, as well as various documents and blogs pointing out the older trace facilities shortcomings and performance impact on the SQL Server, SQL Profiler is still a top choice of SQL Server Developers and DBAs. Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server.

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Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

Organizations that adopt DevOps are able to evolve and improve software products much faster when compared to those that use traditional software development processes. Software development practices these days require teams to deliver quality software continuously and reduce go-to-market timelines.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (all SKUs) , in combination with Windows Server 2016 (All SKUs) or Windows 10 Client introduces non-volatile memory support for the tail of the log file (LDF) which can significantly increase transaction throughput. SQL Server 2016 is designed to detect non-volatile storage devices.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. This heatmap is a visual representation of the F-shaped pattern. It showcases the importance of eye-tracking for creating guidelines for writing for the Web.

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Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 113

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria. Elevate your MariaDB environment with Percona Support for MariaDB. Contact us to learn more!

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

29 will let you set up redo log directory while performing a backup. Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. PXB considers the log sequence number and starts copying away the data files when a backup is performed. root@ip-xxx-xx-xx-xx ~]# mysqlsh -uroot -p MySQL Shell 8.0.33 Type 'help' or '?'

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C++ Servers Storage Speed 101

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.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

The software industry goes through a lot of research and modified methodologies that keep the software quality top-notch for the end-user. Again, this was shaped by the market trends and the increasing importance of both of this software. A couple of years back a new term QAOps started picking up in the software industry.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2016

Clearly, to make a canoe camping trip in 2016, my method needed to change. * * * Method is the codification of experience into rules, guidelines, policy, principles, behaviors, norms and so forth. We have to perform a barbecue roll of a spacecraft throughout a journey to the moon, otherwise it'll freeze on one side and burn up on the other.

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Energy Systems Efficiency Development 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. In the Sep 2014 the SQL Server CSS and Development teams performed a deep dive focused on scalability and performance when running on current and new hardware configurations.

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Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

For more than 15 years, my colleagues and I at the Software Improvement Group (SIG) have been in the business of evaluating the quality of code, architecture, and development practices for our customers. Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017.

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High Scalability

AUGUST 9, 2018

Uber : Since 2016, Uber has added several new lines of business to its platform, including Uber Eats, Uber Freight, and Jump Bikes. And now we have some idea what's driving unequal growth in productivity of top-performing firms -- it's how they build and use *their own, proprietary software and other IT/technology.

Internet 21

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 21

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 5, 2017

By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. Find those same concepts for software and you can do the exact same things, no virtualization and no performance or functionality compromises. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. He started me off with an easy project.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team. Organizations adopt DevOps, where developers and operations work together in a continuous loop, so they can develop software and resolve issues efficiently before they affect users. What is NoOps?

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The Morning Paper

MAY 21, 2019

Software-defined far memory in warehouse-scale computers Lagar-Cavilla et al., ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016. ” This paper describes a “far memory” system that has been in production deployment at Google since 2016.

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Software Software Google Hardware 78

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. When you stop to consider all the implications of poor performance, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that poor performance is an ethical issue.

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SQL Server According to Bob

AUGUST 23, 2016

I had an interesting e-mail discussion related to the performance of create table. We are not talking about the performance of inserts, updates, deletes and selects but instead looking at the time it takes to perform create table. These are additional steps that a disk based table does not perform.

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