The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. I really do want to cover this one at some point, along with Implementation of cluster-wide logical clock and causal consistency in MongoDB from SIGMOD 2019. What’s their secret???

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. Hyperscale achieves high performance from each compute node having SSD-based caches which helps minimize the network round trips to fetch data. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier. GB per vCore.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 10, 2019

HotStorage 2019. Both abstractions must be implemented in a way that is efficient using existing hardware. The hardware perspective. At the hardware level we want to able to move data into, out of , and around memory, without consideration for persistence and reference lifetimes. Application requirements. Object spaces.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The worldwide ASP 18 months ago was ~$300USD , so the average performance in the deployed fleet can be represented by a $300 device from mid-2019.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

They are run on SQL Server 2019 CU9 , on a laptop with 8 cores, and 16GB of memory allocated to the SQL Server 2019 instance. This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. Batch Mode Serial Execution.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. ATC ’19 was refreshingly different. Heterogeneous ISA.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. release even includes some support for deep learning.

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Well, according to HTTP Archive , as of June 1, 2019 the average desktop page is 1,896.8 This is crucial due to mobile devices requiring additional optimizations because they typically have less powerful hardware and a slower network connection when compared to desktop devices. KB and the average mobile page is 1,683.5

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

Back in 2017 we built the entire site with Preact, but then have moved to React in 2019 — and use it along with a few APIs for search, comments, authentication and checkout. Back in 2017, the entire layout was built with Flexbox and rebuilt with CSS Grid and CSS Custom Properties in mid-2019.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Vitaly Friedman. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

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