Smashing Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

The British Standards Institution (2005) defines inclusive design as : “The design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible. Design systems should be used not only to ensure branding and consistency, but accessibility, inclusivity, and understanding of code better.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. With the goals of sharing, openness and mentoring, you’re in for some great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins. 24 Pull Requests.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 30, 2021

The fundamentals of row mode parallel execution haven’t changed since SQL Server 2005, so the following discussion is broadly applicable. A parallel query might start out requesting DOP 8, but be progressively downgraded to DOP 4, DOP 2, and finally DOP 1 due to a lack of system resources at that moment. MonthlyPosts AS. (

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The system table sys.sysprocesses was replaced way back in SQL Server 2005 by a set of dynamic management views (DMVs), most notably sys.dm_exec_requests , sys.dm_exec_sessions , and sys.dm_exec_connections. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. Why this is a problem.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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John McCalpin

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Understanding sustained memory bandwidth in these systems starts with assuming 100% utilization and then reviewing the factors that get in the way (e.g., This requires a completely different approach to modeling the memory system — one based on Little’s Law from queueing theory. cache lines -> 5.6

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

How many different booking systems have your frequent flier numbers, know that you prefer an aisle to a window, and know that you prefer a vegetarian meal on long-haul flights? And how much of that has changed since you last edited your profile in each of those systems? We have a lot of redundant data. We lug this data around with us.

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John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Therefore, there might be cases where your system could experience a downtime during the migration process. For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. Specialized featuresSome vendors offer specialized features that are not available in competing CDNs.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Therefore, there might be cases where your system could experience a downtime during the migration process. Not only that, but there can be cases where a piece of your application could break during the migration process that could take a long time to get back running.‍How does vendor lock-in occur?

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. That job was effectively encapsulated in the operating system. Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. All kinds of deep and powerful functionality was made available via simple APIs.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. In 2005, in “ What is Web 2.0? ,” I made the case that the companies that had survived the dotcom bust had all in one way or another become experts at “harnessing collective intelligence.”

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Linux load averages are "system load averages" that show the running thread (task) demand on the system as an average number of running plus waiting threads. This measures demand, which can be greater than what the system is currently processing. then your system is idle. - cat /proc/loadavg. 42/3411 43603. 42/3411 43603.

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