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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Oracle Enterprise Edition. Not available.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

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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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. What’s next?

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What? Stay tuned! It is unlikely that they will be the same, as x-heights differ greatly. This is a question that is not easily answered.