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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". JavaScript benchmark. It's the fastest device I've ever tested.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

stephenbalaban : We've benchmarked the 2080 Ti, V100, Titan V, 2080, and 1080 Ti. One in 10 people in the UK use illegal downloads, down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov's Music Report. Only few astute folks take seriously. This was foolish on multiple dimensions. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. What’s causing this massive shift?

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Benchmark before you decide. have been released since then with some major changes. For database servers, we usually recommend our clients have: Jemalloc installed and enabled for MySQL.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7].

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.