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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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 4 Most Common Myths Around Test Automation

Testsigma

Automation is defined by Wikipedia as a wide range of technologies that reduce human involvement in processes. Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. Linking screenshots/logs to the reports.

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Powering PostgreSQL 15 With Columnar Tables

Percona

In the database world there are essentially two types of database operations: Online Transaction Processing , OLTP : Online transaction processing applications have high throughput and are insert- or update-intensive in database management. The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability.

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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. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. The data in the above definition could also include instructions.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If Don't assume hardware and networks will mitigate page bloat.

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12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Testsigma

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.