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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. PostgreSQL offers more light-weight tuning capabilities, like their Query Optimizer, and DBaaS platforms like ScaleGrid offer advanced slow query analysis. Compare Ease of Use. Comparison Overview.

Open Source

Open Source Tuning C++ Database

Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

The best practices in those fields have always centered around rigorous evaluation cycles. Evaluation : How do we evaluate such systems, especially when outputs are qualitative, subjective, or hard to benchmark? Iteration: Iterate quickly using prompt engineering, embeddings, tool use, fine-tuning, business logic, and more!

Systems

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring

How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

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

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance

Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning

Tuning Database Performance Hardware

Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

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. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache

HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

Best Practices

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++

The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. #include <sys/time.h> > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i, ret; struct timeval tv; struct timezone tz; for (i = 0; i.

Speed

Speed Java AWS Virtualization

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

That’s right; I’ve parked day-to-day design work in favor of becoming someone very active in the design community, focusing on best practice design advice and scalable systems. Stay tuned! I now find myself working as a Designer Advocate at Figma. We’re All Faking It. No one really knows what they are doing.

Design

Design Website Social Media Best Practices

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

Performance

Performance Design Best Practices Testing

Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical. The best practices to build and deploy your files to a production environment, and tools that can help you find problems once your site goes live. Web Performance Tuning.

Performance

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance

Performance tips for building responsive sites

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

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. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

Performance

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking

The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. ## 7. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c include <sys/time.h>

Speed

Speed Java AWS Virtualization

The Ultimate Guide to MySQL Partitions

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Best Practices for Implementing MySQL Partitioning With these best practices, you can ensure that your MySQL partitioning setup is efficient, well-maintained, and improves database performance. This helps identify potential issues and fine-tune the partitioning strategy. Documentation : Always be documenting!

Strategy

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices

What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++

Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

While this has the benefit of respecting user privacy by minimizing permissions (which is a best practice that ChatGPT may have learned from its training data), it made my coding efforts a lot more painful since I kept running into unexpected errors when I tried adding new functionality to my Chrome extension.

Programming

Programming Code Design Benchmarking