Scalable data management for future hardware
Presents the results of the DFG priority program on scalable data management for future hardware. It details requirements and solutions of how modern and future hardware architectures can be leveraged to address the challenges in modern data management.the nine chapters of the book present a wide range of data management architectures in conjunction with current hardware developments, often related to applications in data analytics or machine learning. they cover topics such as hardware-accelerated query or event processing on FPGA, GPU, and multicore CPUs, scalable data management in data center networks or on modern memory and storage technologies, and operating system support.
Practical Common Lisp
Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world. Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.
High Performance SQL Server " Consistent Response for Mission-Critical Applications
An excellent complement to query performance tuning books and provides the other half of what you need to know by focusing on configuring the instances on which mission-critical queries are executed. You will: Understand SQL Server's database engine and how it processes queries / Configure instances in support of high-throughput applications / Provide consistent response times to varying user numbers and query volumes / Design databases for high-throughput applications with focus on performance / Record performance baselines and monitor SQL Server instances against them / Troubleshot and fix performance problems


