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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

This type of database offers scalability with no downtime along with giving businesses control over what resources they use through customization capabilities such as choosing hardware infrastructure options or building security measures around it. These advantages come at an expense.

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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Watch webinar now!

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Hardware resources. Performance during a load.

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Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology

The Netflix TechBlog

However, high level operations performed on client devices, such as seeking, do not need to be aware of the elementary syntax and benefit from a codec-agnostic format. Hardware video decoders need to know in advance the resolution and bit depth of the video streams to allocate their decoding buffers.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. When you combine all of this, you can ensure that your apps are allotted the appropriate amount of CPU and memory in the most effective way possible, saving you money and improving performance.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. A brownout phase performs a preparatory background transfer of all the key state to a memory region shared with the new version. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

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