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Will Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, Be Fired for Low Stock Price? - The Daily Beast
fairly or unfairly, the share price performance has been unimpressive during the entirety of his tenure. presumably that will have to change one way or another.
microsoft  steveballmer  shareprice  financial  performance 
july 2010 by sogrady
Hadoop Performance Optimization is the Next Big Thing
"While the barriers to use something like Hadoop have fundamentally dropped there are only a handful of experts that can make your Hadoop cluster perform well. What’s needed is a new suite of services and tools that can analyze your cluster and automatically optimize your performance. Hadoop Timelines, while rudimentary, is the beginning of an exciting new business niche, Hadoop Performance Optimization (HPO)."
hadoop  performance  optimization  timelines  davidcancel 
january 2010 by sogrady
Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB - MongoDB
Mongo compares itself to Couch: two next generation database options
couchdb  mongodb  database  cloud  performance  development  scalability  sysadmin  nosql  comparisons 
november 2009 by sogrady
Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Looking to the future with Cassandra
where are we going after databases? Cassandra is one answer popping up more and more
digg  database  performance  cassandra  nosql  architecture  hashtable  scalability  key-value 
september 2009 by sogrady
Startup, part 1 at Vladimir Vukićević
glad someone's looking at this, but the sustained performance needs to be closely examined as well. FF (3.5, even) bogs down over longer sessions, even with tabs kept to a max of 10-20.
firefox  performance  startup  time 
july 2009 by sogrady
New Pitch-Tracking System May Open Old Wounds With Umpires - NYTimes.com
only in baseball - a sports whose journalists trumpet their ignorance - would a system that provides oversight and performance reviews be a source of such resistance
baseball  metrics  umpires  performance  measurement 
may 2009 by sogrady
Being a “power user” really sucks sometimes as iPhone 2.2 reminds me on Dion Almaer's Blog
"One more gripe with the iPhone even with this update…. I keep expecting the team to give us a decent friggin cache. PLEASE let me give the iPhone as much space as it needs to keep my stuff around! A mobile browser that is often on a crap network needs this more than anyone else! Cache more aggressively. Save my JavaScript and CSS! At the very least, don’t let me hit the back button and wait for the entire bugger to be grabbed again for the love of god! Why can’t I about:config and up the caching space and rules :(
iphone  mobile  safari  cache  performance 
november 2008 by sogrady
[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
"With this being our first time comparing the performance of Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux, we were not sure going into this which one would emerge as the leader. After looking at these results from the Phoronix Test Suite, it's almost a toss-up as to which operating system is faster."
phoronix  mac  ubuntu  apple  canonical  performance  testing 
november 2008 by sogrady
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds [LWN.net]
"It's not about booting faster, it's about booting in 5 seconds." - this would be seriously differentiating.
linux  kernel  boot  performance  hardware 
september 2008 by sogrady
Performance increase with Amazon's EBS (persistent storage) | AltJ.org
"In summary, it's safe to say you'll see a significant disk performance increase if you switch over to using EBS with your EC2 instances. In addition to the performance increase, it's a no-brainer that you want persistent storage for your databases. One other huge benefit is snapshots. You can quickly and easily snapshot your database for backup purposes or for testing/reporting you may want to run against your most recent production data."
ec2  ebs  amazon  performance  customer  benchmark  familink  via:jeff 
september 2008 by sogrady
Paper tigers and hidden dragons » Untangled
"The point is that you don’t need to change technologies (or even interaction styles) to solve a problem of information transfer efficiency. Sometimes you just need to rethink the problem. There are many systems for which a different architecture is far more efficient, just as XMPP is far more efficient than HTTP for something like group chat. Large-scale collaborative monitoring is not one of them. An XMPP solution is far more applicable to peer-to-peer monitoring, where there is no central service that is interested in the entire state of a big site like Flickr, but even then we have to keep in mind that the economics of the crowd will dictate scalability, not the protocol used for information transfer."
royfielding  xmpp  http  web  software  scalability  pubsub  scaling  notification  messaging  performance 
september 2008 by sogrady
Is Twitter's downtime and latency a good thing? | corey gilmore's blog
"I'll never use the word 'tweet' to describe a post on Twitter." - hahaha, me neither
twitter  coreygilmore  downtime  latency  google  performance 
june 2008 by sogrady
Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish
"SquirrelFish is a register-based, direct-threaded, high-level bytecode engine, with a sliding register window calling convention. It lazily generates bytecodes from a syntax tree, using a simple one-pass compiler with built-in copy propagation."
squirrelfish  javascript  webkit  safari  performance  interpreter  apple  android  browsers 
june 2008 by sogrady
shaver » fsyncers and curveballs
as Dion says, the piece itself which examines the interaction between Linux and Firefox is of significant interest, but the discussion is even better
firefox  linux  performance  fsync  sqlite  programming  database  filesystem  via:dalmaer 
may 2008 by sogrady
Ma.tt » Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage
"Infrastructure can be a competitive advantage today — the speed and reliability of WordPress.com has certainly put us in a favorable light with users, especially large customers — but that’s going to disappear over time."
infrastructure  scaling  wordpress  mattmullenweg  cloud  scalability  performance  googlegears  cdn 
may 2008 by sogrady
Ajaxian » Firefox 3 Performance Numbers
i love browser competition. also, Firefox 3.0 performance (mostly).
browser  firefox  performance  speed  stats  webkit  ie 
march 2008 by sogrady
Vista SP1 doesn't significantly boost performance, slows down certain tasks - Engadget
"What's worse, certain tasks like copying files to USB 2.0 hard drives have gotten around 50 percent slower, a speed hit that overshadows the other filesystem improvements in SP1." - wow, that's unfortunate.
sp1  vista  performance  usb2.0 
february 2008 by sogrady
Amazon Web Services Blog: Increasing Amazon S3 Data Transfer Performance
can't wait, given the increasing volume of data i've made Amazon's problem
amazon  aws  bandwidth  beta  performance  s3  via:jeff 
january 2008 by sogrady
Language Shootout - Miguel de Icaza
"Alvaro points out that in the Language Shootout Benchmark Mono comes in 18th place compared to Java's 10th place."
mono  migueldeicaza  java  performance  benchmarks  shootout 
december 2007 by sogrady
The Great Ruby Shootout | Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming
interesting metrics on Ruby performance. looks like 1.9 is a welcome update, speedwise.
ruby  benchmarks  jruby  performance  programming  ruby1.9  via:tim 
december 2007 by sogrady
Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » Firefox 3 beta 1
"Overy 300 memory leak fixes, the XPCOM Cycle Collector which removes an entire class of leaks, ongoing work on memory fragmentation, improvements to rendering performance and better reliability in preserving user data." - my #1 feature request
firefox  firefox3.0  memory  performance  upgrade  leaks 
november 2007 by sogrady
Varnish - Trac
interesting. need to learn more about this
bsd  linux  caching  http  performance  accelerator  via:matt 
october 2007 by sogrady
Jesse Ruderman » Firefox memory usage and memory leak news
good to see the Mozilla folks focusing on performance. Firefox has taken a nosedive for me in performance terms of late, though it seems probable that that's extension related.
mozilla  firefox  memoryleaks  performance  via:#redmonk 
september 2007 by sogrady
Adam Leventhal's Weblog
this was one of the reasons i was bummed to leave on Wed PM rather than Thurs - would have liked to see this in person
adamleventhal  dtrace  ruby  twitter  performance  observability 
august 2007 by sogrady
Too-biased - Tobias Luetke's thoughts
specifics on memcached, including some really amazing anecdotal evidence; Facebook's using memcached on 3TBs of RAM? really?
memcached  facebook  caching  performance  scalability  lamp 
may 2007 by sogrady
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases
great pushback from Ryan on some of the criticisms leveled at Rails by the Twitter crew
rails  ryantomayko  databases  pooling  connection  scalability  performance  postgresql  design 
april 2007 by sogrady
Twitter trouble (Loud Thinking)
DHH's pushback on some the Rails criticisms from the Twitter interview
davidheinemeier-hansson  rails  twitter  performance  bottlenecks  scalability 
april 2007 by sogrady
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne
"It’s also worth mentioning that there shouldn’t be doubt in anybody’s mind at this point that Ruby itself is slow. It’s great that people are hard at work on faster implementations of the language, but right now, it’s tough."
via:Ted  ruby  performance  dynamiclanguages  twitter  rails 
april 2007 by sogrady
Port 25 : MySQL on Windows: Configuration & Install
interesting thoughts on MySQL vs Postgres in the context of Windows
mysql  postgres  windows  port25  performance 
march 2007 by sogrady
TheOpenForce.com: ZendCore 2.0 Integrated with MySQL 5.0
"The trick is to use the right language and tools for the right job. You might not want to write a compiler or operating system in PHP, but it's equally valid that you probably shouldn't write a web site in Assembler." - can't be said enough
righttool  php  assembler  mysql  zackurlocker  speed  performance  agility 
march 2007 by sogrady
Django on nginx
interesting; Django on nginx is apparently pretty fast - can't remember who pointed me here
nginx  django  performance  speed  frameworks  dynamiclanguages  fastcgi  howto 
february 2007 by sogrady
Code and Whatnot » Blog Archive » Scaling MySQL: thoughts on replication, sharding, and MySQL Cluster
some very interesting thoughts on clustering and scaling MySQL from Greg; most important, note his discussion of the difference between speed and scalability
mysql  whitecarver  scalability  speed  performance  flickr  php  clustering  replication  sharding 
february 2007 by sogrady
Fx2.0 frequent freezes on Mac OS X 10.4.8 - MozillaZine Forums
found this thread via Dave Johnson; we'll see if the Google Toolbar is the cause of my FF 2.0 woes, as i've just uninstalled it
johnson  google  toolbar  firefox  2.0  bugs  performance 
november 2006 by sogrady
The Observation Deck
DTrace applied to Rails; the DTrace crew marches on
dtrace  performance  ruby  rails 
october 2006 by sogrady
Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
"It's pretty astounding that OO.o on Win32 takes 13 seconds to cold start, where MSWord takes ~3 seconds; in fact Word can cold-start quicker than we can warm-start, a little depressing." - Novell's Michael Meeks comments on the OO.o boot time
boot  meeks  novell  oo.o  performance  microsoft  office  word 
october 2006 by sogrady
GullFOSS
the OO.o gang responds to Luis
oo.o  villa  firefox  extensions  plugins  performance 
october 2006 by sogrady
Headius: Performance Progress Since 0.9.0
"Nibbling, nibbling away at overhead is paying serious dividends." - performance improvements in JRuby
jruby  ruby  performance  java  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
Polishing Ruby: Recursive Functions in RubyInline
"C doesn't make ruby fast. Avoiding method dispatch makes ruby fast." - interesting exploration of the prospect of running C within and alongside of Ruby
c  ruby  performance  inline  recursive  via:pat 
october 2006 by sogrady
send, receive, reply: Performance is not optional
Duimovich agrees with my general conclusion, but not with some of the particulars; i agree with just about everything in here, but not the assertion that performance is not optional (more on that later)
ruby  smalltalk  performance  java  c  C++  python 
september 2006 by sogrady
Performance Anxiety
"Ruby performance today is surprisingly acceptable for a wide range of uses." - in case you didn't believe Yegge
via:Duimovich  ruby  java  performance  smalltalk  dynamic  languages 
september 2006 by sogrady
Stevey's Blog Rants: Blogger's Block #4: Ruby and Java and Stuff
"If only it performed better. *Sigh*. Well, its performance is in the same class as Perl/Python/JavaScript/Lua/Bash/etc., so there are still plenty of tasks Ruby's admirably suited for" - precisely
ruby  javascript  python  java  performance  via:Tim 
september 2006 by sogrady
Brendan Gregg : Weblog
this is fascinating; using DTrace to probe JavaScript - hope to see more of this
dtrace  opensolaris  c  firefox  opensource  javascript  sun  programming  work  performance  via:afongen 
september 2006 by sogrady
christopher baus dot net
very intresting post from Christopher on dynamic language performance versus C++; can't say that i'm terribly surprised - different tools for different jobs
dynamic  languages  python  ruby  C++  performance  baus 
september 2006 by sogrady
ongoing · No Database!?
"there is a psychology out there in our profession,which says: if you have data that you want to store and retrieve, that means you need a database. But sometimes you don’t." amen. on that note, anyone tried Dokuwiki?
dokuwiki  databases  relational  flat  files  filesystem  performance  persistence 
july 2006 by sogrady
Framework Performance in Ruby on Rails
very interesting benchmarks of frameworks for PHP, Python and Ruby; the net is that Rails (Ruby) outperformed Symfony (PHP), and DJango (Python) outperformed Rails - thx to kryton for the tip
via:kryton  rails  ruby  symfony  php  django  python  frameworks  mvc  performance  benchmarks  benchmark 
july 2006 by sogrady
memcached performance
the post that pointed me to some of the memcached posts, with some thoughts on improving DJango
django  feh  apache  scalability  performance 
june 2006 by sogrady
/~colmmacc/ » Blog Archive » Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown
an excellent review of Niagara performance from an ISP perspective; it's later bettered by Ubuntu (via Bray)
niagara  isp  apache  benchmark  multi-core  performance  solaris10  solaris  sun  tryandbuy 
april 2006 by sogrady
A Look at GNOME 2.14
can't wait to get ahold of some of this stuff, but then it'll be a while before it hits Gentoo x86 - i think 2.12 is still marked x86 - i'm hoping that some of the Xgl stuff gets considered for upcoming releases
gnome  linux  desktop  2.14  performance 
february 2006 by sogrady
kontrawize: I can still remember when native code was faster than Java ...
interesting articule on how some of the performance deltas between native and VM code have evaporated
java  c  C++  performance  native  code  virtual  machine  vm  clr 
january 2006 by sogrady
Federico Mena Quintero - December 2005 Activity Log
"Why we need Dtrace on Linux, part N." - some interesting commentary on DTrace from one of the GNOME devs
gnome  dtrace  linux  performance 
january 2006 by sogrady
FlickrBlog
interesting presentation from the Flickr guys on LAMP infrastructures
apache  lamp  flickr  mysql  php  scalability  performance  systems 
december 2005 by sogrady
Programming Language Popularity
some very diverse, though not scientific, metrics about programming languages (via Mike)
programming  languages  ruby  c  C++  java  C#  performance  linux  python  rubyonrails  statistics  metrics  ajax 
december 2005 by sogrady
Luis Villa's Blog
Luis' got some harsh words for OOo; some truth there, but if i can use it Berkman can
villa  ooo  performance  microsoft  office 
september 2005 by sogrady
Michael Meeks interview :: Linux Format :: The website of the UK's best-selling Linux magazine
interesting interview with Michael Meeks of Novell on OO.o start times and the like
novell  oo.o  meeks  performance 
september 2005 by sogrady
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