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All Not so Profound Truths about Programming, page 5:

OLTP DB Optimizations 102 –100% Coherent App-Level Cache for Single-writing-DB-connection

posted October 10, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“with our app-level cache, we’re guaranteed to get exactly the same results as if we’d be querying the underlying database.”
Another Quote:	“why settle for invalidation when we can modify cache accordingly, saving on the extra DB request when we’re dealing with the same USER again?”
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posted September 5, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Have I already mentioned that you DO need to understand execution plans?”
Another Quote:	“DO keep in mind that maintaining indexes has its own cost”
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posted August 24, 2017 by Ben Richardson

Quote:	“A correlated sub-query is a type of query, where inner query depends upon the outcome of the outer query in order to perform its execution.”
Another Quote:	“Correlated sub-queries are slower.”
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posted August 15, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“‘Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems”
Another Quote:	“For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes”
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posted August 1, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“asm.js has invented its own instruction set, which can be still seen as an instruction set of a CPU, at least from the point of view of a C++ compiler.”
Another Quote:	“As asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript – it will run even if there is no special support for asm.js in browser.”
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posted May 16, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“in both these cases we can be 100% sure that we’ll be deserializing this state on the executable which is identical to the executable which serialized the state.”
Another Quote:	“Even when comparing with home-grown code with per-field serialization, our Ultra-Fast Serialization still wins (up to 1.5x-2x) “
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posted April 4, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“I’ve seen game companies with hundreds of thousands of dollars lost per hour of unplanned server downtime.”
Another Quote:	“deterministic debugging is by far the best thing I have seen for production debugging.”
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