The success of nearly every application is determined by its reliability and performance. Squeezing every millisecond out of a solution is an ongoing task for most application designers and ...

In the previous chapter we discussed backup and recovery. We discussed why backup was one of the critical parts of any Information Technology implementation. Hardware redundancy provides availability ...

The database management system is the heart of modern applications, and keeping things running smoothly in a DBMS is imperative to an organization's bottom line. Database performance tools can ...

When I want the best performance on x86/x86-64 processors while using C, C++, Fortran, or Python, Intel tools have no equal. Intel tools can also help with C# and Java optimization. Starting this week ...

Besides a multitude of fixes, AMD's latest Radeon Software 21.3.1 driver also comes with some new improvements for Radeon Boost and Radeon Anti-Lag, as well as a new stress test to ensure all of your ...

The tuning of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loops was an important change at HollyFrontier’s Navajo Refinery in Artesia, N.M. Its hands-on, “mandraulic” culture was no longer cutting ...