I’m writing this blog post in response to a question posed on twitter, asking which type of lock is preferable. The short answer is that at a high level it depends on your workload: OLTP […]

By “Core i Xeon” I am referring to the generation of Xeons ushered in by the “Core i” series micro-architecture, the first of which was Nehalem – Westmere being the same as Nehalem but with […]