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What Are SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs?

DZone

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is the practice of applying software engineering expertise to DevOps and operations problems.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 13th, 2018

High Scalability

Leslie Lamport : Today, programming is generally equated with coding. It's hard to convince students who want to write code that they should learn to think mathematically, above the code level, about what they’re doing. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering.

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SQL 2016 – It Just Runs Faster Announcement

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server 2016 ‘It Just Runs Faster’ A bold statement that any SQL Server professional can stand behind with confidence. Try SQL Server 2016 Today. You can take advantage of this effort packaged in SQL Server 2016. SQL 2016 supports 3X more physical memory than previous versions. – [link]. Follow-up.

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How It Works: SQL Server 2016 SSE/AVX Support

SQL Server According to Bob

As indicated, SQL Server 2016 added the use of SSE and AVX instructions in various code paths to improve performance. This post will outline SQL Server’s decisions around SSE/AVX or software algorithm use. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. My recent posts. Reference: AVX vs SSE instructions.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly

They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Then, development of even higher-level compiled languages like Fortran, COBOL, and their successors C, C++, and Java meant that most programmers no longer wrote assembly code.

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What Am I Working On (RDORR): SQL Server On Linux

SQL Server According to Bob

We developed a friendly competition to break one another’s code. We are a bit wiser (you could take that as older) now and we don’t wait until 5 o’clock but we still try everything we can think of to exercise the code. As a support professional I need to get in gear, I have 100s of support engineers too ready for SQL Server on Linux.

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SQL Server on Linux: ELF and PE Images Just Work

SQL Server According to Bob

By March of 2016 Slava had convinced me to join the team. If you look at the difference in the binary images the differences are operating system specific (headers) but the actual code of execution is the same between the images. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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