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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Resolution: In 2018, make it a top priority to create a better – more real-time – experience for your customers.

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Resolution: In 2018, make it a top priority to create a better – more real-time – experience for your customers.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% Alok Pathak : While both (Multi-AZ and Read replica) maintain a copy of database but they are different in nature.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification. Web Components Web component compilers like Stencil make it easy create your own custom elements.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile. I wrote a number of blog posts about this back in January 2018, including these: Checking Your SQL Server Instance for Spectre/Meltdown Patches. Figure 2: AMD EPYC Rome Processor. There are many reasons!

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Smart Bundling: How To Serve Legacy Code Only To Legacy Browsers

Smashing Magazine

2018-10-15T14:30:13+02:00. dist/modern/index.html', 'dist/legacy/index.html' await send(ctx, index); }); Here, setting the allowHigherVersions flag ensures that if newer versions of a browser are released — ones that are not yet a part of Can I Use’s database — they will still report as truthy for modern browsers.

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