Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. CitusDB – distributes data and queries horizontally across nodes.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7].

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

n0derunner

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I have worked for Nutanix in the performance engineering group since 2013. My opinions are likely biased, but that also gives me a decent amount of context when it comes to the performance of Nutanix storage over time. We’ve come a long way, baby. Full disclosure.

Database 52

Database Performance Storage Engineering 52

n0derunner

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I have worked for Nutanix in the performance engineering group since 2013. My opinions are likely biased, but that also gives me a decent amount of context when it comes to the performance of Nutanix storage over time. We’ve come a long way, baby. Full disclosure.

Database 52

Database Performance Storage Engineering 52

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

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.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. The Moto G4 , for example. twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139684093602349056 455 06:18 AM · Feb 28, 2020.

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Performance Network Metrics Cache 127