Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria that a service must meet before it is advanced to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. Dynatrace Cloud Automation is currently only available for Dynatrace SaaS deployments. Seeing is believing.

Cloud 246

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

DevSecOps automation DevSecOps automation is a fundamental practice that combines security with the speed and agility of DevOps. This approach helps organizations deliver more secure software and infrastructure with greater efficiency and speed. Download the free 2023 CISO Report.

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Speed Benchmarking Infrastructure 264

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. In fact, this is what Next.js

Metrics 327

Metrics Google Code Monitoring 327

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In the second approach, we show that a relatively simple, supervised sequential model (bidirectional LSTM or GRU) that uses rich, pretrained shot-level embeddings can outperform the current state-of-the-art baselines on our internal benchmarks. However, it presupposes the availability of high-quality screenplays.

Benchmarking 262

Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 262

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor the availability of your public as well as your internal web applications and API endpoints from locations around the globe or important internal locations such as branch offices. These metrics are tightly connected to the perceived load speed of your application.

Metrics 246

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 246

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Every browser available on iOS is simply a wrapper around Safari. Same page, same connection speed, same locale, same release year, different devices. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime.

Network 286

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 286

Speed Curve

APRIL 3, 2022

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Create your own custom benchmark dashboard. Testing details.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Speed Retail Mobile 59

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach. Real-time attack detection and blocking for Java will be available in the next 120 days. Dynatrace news.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

DevSecOps and ITOps teams can then perform tasks with accuracy at the speed a business requires. Automatically connect distributed traces with logs for improved application availability, performance, and agility. The core benefits of an AIOps-automated software analytics platform include the following: Infrastructure monitoring.

Software 246

Software Software Analytics Big Data 246

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Mutation blacklist : Query CSS selectors to specify mutation nodes (elements that change) to ignore in Visually complete and Speed index calculation. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 182

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 182

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

While many AWS users default to their managed database solution, Amazon RDS, there are alternatives available that can improve your MySQL performance on AWS through advanced customization options and unlimited EC2 instance type support. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. sync_binlog.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This traditionally manifests more in back-end time, but can have a huge impact on front-end as well when you factor in asset delivery (images, static content) as well as some advanced optimizations available at the edge. Benchmark yourself. Another great tool to have in your bag is benchmarking. Third parties.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes. So first thing to understand is that the benchmark skips a generation and compares product that differs over about a two year interval.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). The problem isn't them – it's the scale of their sites, the speed of their release cycles, and the number of people who touch each page.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Par t of the appeal of Python is that there is a vast array of libraries available for it; when these are written in C, they can go a long way to alleviating Python’s performance problems. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

C++ 109

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 109

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. High data availability is achieved.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. In addition, distributed data is a key factor in high availability.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz).

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. There are numerous choices available for deploying these workloads on various cloud provider platforms that offer unique capabilities. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. That said, your application may not be in the list of supported languages, but if it’s compatible with any of the available profilers, you can still produce flame graphs.

Code 124

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 124

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Over time, the mechanisms introduced for reducing energy consumption (first in laptops) became available more broadly.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Supported Databases. Derived Workloads.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.

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Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40