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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. Database Application Logic Oracle PL/SQL SQL Server T-SQL Db2 SQL PL PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL MySQL stored program language HammerDB Stored Procedures. For this reason we need to implement our database sessions in the form of operating system threads.

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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

First, a bit of operating-system design context. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Ideally the CPU goes to sleep when Sleep(1) is called, in order to save power, so how does the operating system (OS) wake your thread if the CPU is sleeping?

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

The third is that the Team Topologies book defined how to create and manage Platform Teams so there’s interest in the terminology and definition. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., monitoring distributed systems becomes much more difficult to carry out and manage. What is a Distributed System? Big systems cost big money. Heterogeneity.

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Are Computer Architects to Blame for the State of Security Today?

ACM Sigarch

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Attestation—Providing systems the means to attest or verify the integrity of their components. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

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The Pursuit of Appiness

Alex Russell

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies.

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5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

They have a clear input and output definition, and often a schema as well. The low-level streaming implementations of the mentioned engines require specialized knowledge in order to program new applications. When we work on a single machine, the operating system takes care of managing the resources allocated to applications.