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Why Your Performance Testing Strategy Needs to Shift Left

Dotcom-Montior

Additionally, end users can access your site or applications from anywhere in the world using different browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices, all with varying connection speeds. LoadView – Best Practices and Process. Distribute user load by geographical testing locations, simulating your customer base.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

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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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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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The SQL Server Basic Installer: Just Install It!

SQL Server According to Bob

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. In addition, the Download Media option includes a link to create a virtual machine in Azure for SQL Server 2016. Go install it”.

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Common SQL Server Mishaps

SQL Performance

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. There are exceptions to every rule or best practice.

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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. ​​ Also, it ​​ is ​​ generally impractical on a production system.

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