Speed Curve
DECEMBER 10, 2018
JavaScript is the main cause for making websites slow. Ten years ago it was network bottlenecks, but the growth of JavaScript has outpaced network and CPU improvements on today's devices. In the chart below, based on an analysis from the HTTP Archive , we see the number of requests has increased for both first and third party JavaScript since 2011. The following chart shows the growth in the total size of JavaScript from 2011.
Uber Engineering
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Uber, like most large technology companies, relies extensively on metrics to effectively monitor its entire stack. From low-level system metrics, such as memory utilization of a host, to high-level business metrics, including the number of Uber Eats orders in a … The post The Billion Data Point Challenge: Building a Query Engine for High Cardinality Time Series Data appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.
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The Polyglot Developer
DECEMBER 10, 2018
With the 2018 year coming to an end, I wanted to take a moment to appreciate the guest content that was submitted and published on The Polyglot Developer this year. While I love sharing technical content with everyone, I love it even more when the community gets involved and does the same. Let’s take a look at the guest tutorials that appeared on the blog and the guest authors that wrote them.
SQL Server According to Bob
DECEMBER 10, 2018
SQL Server Books Online documents Instant File Initialization and the associated security considerations. This blog highlights the underlying file system implementations and differences in behavior between Windows and Linux. SQL Server performs the following API calls when creating or extending (growing) data and log files. CreateFile – Create or open a file SetEndOfFile – Establish the file size and acquire space from the I/O device SetFileValidData – Establish the valid data size.
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