SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

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.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A website’s performance can make or break its success, yet in August 2020, despite many improvements we had previously made, such as implementing Server-Side Rendering (SSR), the ratio of Wix websites with good Google Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores was only 4%. Dan Shappir. 2021-11-22T10:30:00+00:00. 2021-11-22T11:06:56+00:00.

Website 141

Website Performance Google Website Performance 141

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate. It started by providing server-side encryption in S3 for compliance use cases. APIs are forever.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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.

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. Server side rendering is a massive boost for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). VueJS can be used to create Single Page Apps efficiently with fewer resources evident from its tiny package size.

Virtualization 64

Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40