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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. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. Let’s take a look at core functionality of these two relational database management systems.

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Predictive CPU isolation of containers at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We were able to meaningfully improve both the predictability and performance of these containers by taking some of the CPU isolation responsibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data driven solution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness.

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Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Smashing Magazine

Conventional computers now sport touchscreens and otherwise blur the lines between device types – and between mobile and desktop operating systems. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. If you are in the C-suite, do yourself a favor and read.

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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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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Subsystem / Path The ​​ I/O subsystem or path ​​ includes ​​ those ​​ components ​​ that are ​​ used to support an I/O operation. ​​ SQL Server ​​ copy-on-write actions are used to maintain snapshot databases in SQL Server 2005.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

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). 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).