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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Benchmark before you decide. have been released since then with some major changes. For database servers, we usually recommend our clients have: Jemalloc installed and enabled for MySQL.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Yet, we wanted to put together our list of the top web performance books for anyone who cares about speed of the web and would like to explore the timeline of web performance engineering milestones over nearly two decades through the lens of published books. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Still good.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web.

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. Higher memory speed and bandwidth.

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Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

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Top500 list: a brief introduction

PDC

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. However, the speed of a computer in FLOPS can vary depending on the number of bits used in the representation of the floating point numbers in the tests. You may have heard of the Top500 list.

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