performance

Snowflake: A Data Platform that Does More and Costs Less

A number of blog posts, mainly from competitors, call out Snowflake as...

v12 RTM Is Out…With Enhanced DRaaS, Direct to Object Storage and more!

Today, Veeam made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Veeam Backup &...

5 common SQL Server Problems to Troubleshoot with sp_WhoIsActive

If there were a Mount Rushmore of SQL Server community tools, Adam Machanic...

.NET R&D Digest (January, 2023)

I might be hard to believe but the first month of the 2023 has already passed. Technology world is moving forward to introduce new and fantastic features like this, intriguing, Blazor update, prepare for upcoming...

January Blog Post Wrap-up

Securing SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption Mon, 30 Jan 2023 Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature of Microsoft SQL Server that enables the encryption of a databases data and log files, as well as the...

Pandas: apply, map or transform?

A guide to Pandas’ most versatile functionPhoto by Sid Balachandran on UnsplashAs someone who’s been using Pandas for a few years now, I’ve noticed how many people (myself included) often resort to almost always...

Securing SQL Server: Transparent Data Encryption

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature of Microsoft SQL Server that enables the encryption of a databases data and log files, as well as the encryption of backups, to protect sensitive data from unauthorized...

Run Apache Spark workloads 3.5 times faster with Amazon EMR 6.9

The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark is a performance-optimized runtime for Apache Spark that is 100% API compatible with open-source Apache Spark. With Amazon EMR release 6.9.0, the EMR runtime for Apache Spark...

Partitioning in Oracle Database: Because Who Wants to Search an Endless Table?

As data volumes continue to grow, managing large database tables and indexes can become a challenge. This is where partitioning comes in. Partitioning is a feature of database systems that allows you to divide large...

A comparison of C++ and Rust compiler performance

Large code bases take a long time to compile and build. How much impact does the choice of programming language have on compiler/build times? The small number of industrial strength compilers available for the widely...

Primary Keys on SQL Server

Primary keys are an essential element of database design and are used to uniquely identify each record in a table. In SQL Server, primary keys are implemented using a constraint that ensures that each row in a table...

SQL Server Wait Type: PREEMPTIVE_OS_QUERYREGISTRY

Wait statistics, in the context of SQL Server, refer to the amount of time that a query spends waiting to access data in the database. When a client application requests data from the database, the request is placed in...

The WP Agency Journey With Mario Peshev Of DevriX — Post Status Draft 138

In this episode, Mario Peshev, founder of DevriX, joins Cory Miller to discuss WordPress retainers, entrepreneurship, and the future of WordPress. Mario encourages agency owners to chase recurring revenue to build in...

Java 21: Performance Improvements Revealed

In Java 21, old code might run significantly faster due to recent internal performance optimizations made in the Java Core Libraries. In this article, we will take a closer look at some of these changes and see how...

Learn What Makes People Tick

I’m excited to announce that this month our company launched Essential Motivators, a powerful new learning journey. What makes this offering so special is that it reinforces something I’ve been teaching for...

SQL engine and PL/SQL functions

A common pattern I see in database code is the use of a PL/SQL package to hold constants to be used throughout the rest of the PL/SQL code base. In most cases, there is nothing wrong with this practice, but once you...

etcd: getting 30% more write/s

My team at Zendesk look after around 30 Kubernetes clusters. These are all self managed, meaning we maintain the API servers, and as you may guess: etcd.Recently, I had a task to do some performance analysis on our...

Jetpack Compose & best practices you must always remember — Part 2

Jetpack Compose & best practices you must always remember — Part 2⚠️ This is my summary based on the More performance tips for Jetpack Compose presentation on Android dev summit 2022 and some...

What is Google Analytics 4 and How Does it Work?

If you’re like any marketer preparing for Universal Analytics to sundown on July 1, you’re probably asking yourself: How do I implement Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and what does this mean for me? While it may feel...

Hashicorp Vault. Install and quick first configuration

Introduction Keeping and using passwords in scripts is often an overlooked task, at least in the initial stages of development.This behavior poses serious security problems, and quite often, especially in scripts, one can find plaintext passwords.If the project uses Git, then the versions of git that contain the passwords are visible in the project history.The use of a vault should be implemented in the first phase of every...

11 Best Digital Marketing Courses

By 2026, the global market for digital advertising and marketing is expected to reach $786 billion. Sure, there will be ups and downs, but the trajectory is clear. As the world moves even more online, the need to reach...

DragonCastle - A PoC That Combines AutodialDLL Lateral Movement Technique And SSP To Scrape NTLM Hashes From LSASS Process

A PoC that combines AutodialDLL lateral movement technique and SSP to scrape NTLM hashes from LSASS process. Description Upload a DLL to the target machine. Then it enables remote registry to modify AutodialDLL entry...