Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. Compare Ease of Use.

Open Source 244

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. Benchmark before you decide. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable. Application tuning for InnoDB Make sure your application is prepared to handle deadlocks that may happen.

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

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). Stay tuned!

Performance 113

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 113