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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age. DRM-free, of course.

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

Smashing Magazine

DRM-free, of course. 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. DRM-free, of course.

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Segmentation Fault – A DBA Perspective

Percona

” This is not unusual and doesn’t affect the course of the execution as it just loads desirable items in memory. The following are possible causes for segmentation fault: Operating system issues Buggy OS kernel Faulty hardware(specifically memory) Bug in a product (e.g.,

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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. If the enormity of fighting outdated public policy weren't enough, carmakers moving from internal combustion to electricity also face the transition from hardware to more of a software mindset.

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Regression Testing vs Retesting-Differences and Examples

Testsigma

The regression test plan must include below pointers: Purpose of testing Test strategy Features to be tested Resource Requirement Hardware Requirement Software Requirement Test schedule Change request Entry / Exit criteria Entry criteria for when to start testing Exit criteria for when to stop testing Tools. Who will write test scripts, iii.

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