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. Audio Worklets are a fundamental enabler for rich media and games on the web.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When deciding what to pick, there are many things to consider, like where the proxy needs to be, if it “just” needs to redirect the connections, or if more features need to be in, like caching and filtering, or if it needs to be integrated with some MySQL embedded automation. MySQL Router was never in the game.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Testing and Benchmarking : Thoroughly test triggers in a staging environment to evaluate their impact on performance. Benchmark different trigger implementations to identify the most efficient option. These table cache instances could be accessed concurrently, allowing DML to use cached table descriptors without locking each other.

Cache 75

Cache Database Games Healthcare 75

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

For example, users can install browser plugins to suggest coupon codes when they are shopping, to scan web pages for malware, to play games or message friends, or do any number of other things. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

Website 138

Website Design Network Testing 138

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. To the left of that is one of the CPU cores.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. Are caches large enough for this code? So what can we as a research community do to tackle this challenge?

C++ 109

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 109