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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment

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Finally, if you have some tasks to do on remote servers, you’ll often end up using the shell. This is useful on your local computer, but it’s even better on a remote server. You can, for example, connect to a server via SSH, run a script, close your SSH connection and your terminal on your local machine, and go home.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. Server-Side Performance. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”. Large preview ).

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Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

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Those aren’t accessible by JS and are sent only to your server. The issue with that is that they’re always sent to your server, even if one of your users clicks on a GET request URL on someone else’s website and that GET request has side effects you or your user won’t like. Does that mean your JWT has to be out in the open?

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

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Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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