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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. If multiple threads can synchronize or coalesce their timer waits then the system becomes more power efficient.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

In 2004, we submitted a set of rules to the Opquast community of web professionals in public online workshops. Since then, we have produced 4 versions of our checklist — in 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2020. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. Amazon DynamoDB is designed to maintain predictably high performance and to be highly cost efficient for workloads of any scale, from the smallest to the largest internet-scale applications.

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File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution

The Morning Paper

While different systems require different features from a storage backend, two of these features, (1) efficient transactions and (2) fast metadata operations appear to be common; another emerging requirement is (3) support for novel, backward-incompatible storage hardware. Implementing transactions efficiently.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-03T14:03:11+00:00.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. If you need a developer, taking a Jamstack approach is one of the most efficient ways to leverage your staffing resources. Drupal is not just a CMS.

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