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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Upcoming of the learned data structures

Abhishek Tiwari

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow in the Google Brain team and widely known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning community. Learned indexes.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. Back-end servers.

Java 145
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SKP's Java/Java EE Gotchas: Clash of the Titans, C++ vs. Java!

DZone

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. The legacy languages — be it ASM or C still rule in terms of performance.

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

First, its origin was in a monoculture (the browser) wher e there was no need for compatibility with legacy code. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. MICRO 15 , Gope et al.,

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. PowerPoint or Google Slides). This is as it should be. Trusted Types.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.

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