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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. But mainstream users? Not so much. But WordPress?

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

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KeyCDN Launches POP in Helsinki

KeyCDN

The use of online bank services, online shopping, and travel service browsing have increased significantly since spring 2004. Alternatively, If you would like to request a POP in a certain location or a new feature please let us know on our feature requests community page and stay tuned for more exciting announcements.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking?

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013). Stay tuned!

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? I would have guessed that this answers the question: are the disks seeking?

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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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