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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. This isn’t the first time this has happened , but this change seems bigger than last time. The short version is that calls to timeBeginPeriod from one process now affect other processes less than they used to, but there is still an effect.

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Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption

The Morning Paper

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., SIGCOMM’20. We are standing on the eve of the 5G era… 5G, as a monumental shift in cellular communication technology, holds tremendous potential for spurring innovations across many vertical industries, with its promised multi-Gbps speed, sub-10 ms low latency, and massive connectivity.

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NoSQL Endgame – Percona Live ONLINE Talk Preview

Percona Community

Percona Live Online Agenda Slot: Tue 20 Oct • New York 3:00 p.m. • London 8:00 p.m. • New Delhi 12:30 a.m. (next day) • Singapore 3:00 a.m. Abstract The amount of data collected by applications nowadays is growing at a scary pace. Many of them need to handle billions of users generating and consuming data at an incredible speed. Maybe you are wondering how to create an application like this?

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