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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

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. Tuning with waits and queues is just as applicable to SQL Server performance today as it was back in 2006. Conclusion.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. 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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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. In order to create change across our entire organization, we needed to get all the relevant employees, partners, and even customers up to speed about performance quickly and efficiently.

Website 141
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Zombie Businesses

The Agile Manager

These investments made operations a source of competitiveness by lowering costs, increasing efficiency, and making businesses more responsive to customers. The people who got salary bumps in the boom years from 2006 through 2008 became "high-salary outliers" in 2009. The third use was financial restructuring and building reserves.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” If you need a developer, taking a Jamstack approach is one of the most efficient ways to leverage your staffing resources.

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Front-End Testing is For Everyone

CSS - Tricks

Cem Kaner, “Exploratory Testing” (November 17, 2006). If you want to make sure your application works as expected, is inclusive to as many people as possible, runs efficiently, and is well-designed, then testing needs to be a core part of your workflow, whether it’s automated or manual.

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