Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Focusing on the fundamentals Grabner recalled a 2017 tweet from Hightower that outlined how his technology career gathered steam once he started to “focus on the fundamentals.” Hightower shared his beliefs on operational best practices. In the IT world, there are constantly new concepts, terms, and technologies to learn.

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Best Practices Internet Internet Cloud 215

SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 18, 2018

The changes made in SQL Server 2017 CU4 improve resource usage on smaller machines, such as a VM or Container used for testing and development. SQL Server always strives to provide you with the best experience, “out of the box” and will continue improvements in future releases. It is a best practice keep the setting above 128.

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Servers Best Practices Software Engineering Operating System 40

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As a best practice, if you know that an attribute is not supposed to allow NULLs, make sure you enforce it with a NOT NULL constraint as part of the column definition. WHERE NOT ( shippeddate = '20190102' ) ; This query returns the following output: orderid shippeddate -- -- 10249 2017-07-10 10252 2017-07-11 10250 2017-07-12.

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Best Practices C++ Database Code 117

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

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. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Treating these different processes as code will ensure that best practices are followed. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017. It was clear that in order to be successful in a changing digital world we needed to transition to using code for our operations instead of just doing it manually.

Code 109

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 109

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

CSS - Tricks

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Here’s an interesting tidbit from that link: According to CNBC , the number of lawsuits over inaccessible websites jumped 58 percent last year over 2017, to more than 2,200. Inaccessible websites are not just a consideration for designers and engineers but a serious problem for a company’s legal team as well.

Website 54

Website Best Practices Engineering Design 54

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The failure resulted in the cancellation and delay of numerous flights, causing significant disruptions for thousands of passengers.As

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The failure resulted in the cancellation and delay of numerous flights, causing significant disruptions for thousands of passengers.As

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Unlike the system database tempdb, ReportServerTempDB is not recreated at startup.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Best Practices for Implementing MySQL Partitioning With these best practices, you can ensure that your MySQL partitioning setup is efficient, well-maintained, and improves database performance. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

Database 40

Database Blockchain Healthcare Transportation 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. Popularity of PostgreSQL Before delving further into the inner workings of PostgreSQL high availability, let’s briefly examine the burgeoning popularity of this open source relational database software.

Availability 87

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 87

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. Summary eCommerce is an ever-changing landscape and to keep up with the fast pace, store owners must be quick to implement best practices and be innovative so that their store doesn’t fall behind the competition.

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Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 It’s is a Google service that audit things performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Harry Roberts has outlined this strategy in 2017. We’ll develop the card component in isolation and use the agreed standards and best practices. It’s important to document the rules and best practices that were established and applied during the refactoring projects. Let’s go over this strategy step by step.

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Strategy Testing Best Practices Code 132

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The Ultimate Guide to UX Research shares tips and best practices from leading industry experts. To help us do better, UX Planet published a four-part article series on streamlining the checkout experience back in 2017 which is still gold for everyone working on a checkout flow today.

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). From Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices by Addy Osmani (Slides 18, 19). An interesting way of avoiding parsing costs is to use binary templates that Ember has introduced in 2017. Evaluate each framework and each dependency.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 1, 2019

An example console output showing surface cache over budget errors During brainstorming with our platform team, we came across an internal bug report from 2017 that described a similar issue to what we were seeing?—?surfaces those running the 2017 SDK?—?also The SNG files have a relatively large download size at ~1.5MB each.

Cache 166

Cache Design Testing Development 166

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98