Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In short, Lambda functions can take on almost all of the operational duties of running an application; all you need to do is provide the code that should be executed on a given event or trigger. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements.

Lambda 246

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

In short, Lambda functions can take on almost all of the operational duties of running an application; all you need to do is provide the code that should be executed on a given event or trigger. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements.

Lambda 246

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. In summary, this model was a tightly-coupled application-to-data architecture, where machine learning algos were mixed with the backend and UI/UX software code stack.

Media 299

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 299

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

I have a lot of historical data using my ReadOnly benchmark (as described in some of the earliest entries in this blog [link] A read-only access pattern removes the need to understand and explain the many complexities associated with the “streaming stores” typically used in the STREAM benchmark (e.g., Stay tuned!

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Evaluation : How do we evaluate such systems, especially when outputs are qualitative, subjective, or hard to benchmark? This is often surprising to engineers coming from traditional software or data infrastructure backgrounds who may not be used to thinking about validation plans until after the code is written. How do we do so?

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

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. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379> <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Some of these examples have been hand-tuned to make them efficient for TLC to check, no such tuning is done for APALACHE. 4 seconds on this same benchmark). We hope that with the growing number of users, specifications will get tuned to our model checker, as is now happening with TLC. But when TLC starts to struggle (e.g.,

Tuning 106

Tuning Benchmarking Efficiency Systems 106

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Get started for free!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Named dimensions improve readability by making it easier to determine how dimensions in the code correspond to the semantic dimensions described in,e.g.,

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Get started for free!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Get started for free!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Get started for free!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 72

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 72

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) looking out for MongoDB Inc.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve played around with using AI tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot to write code for you. So far I’ve read a gazillion blog posts about people’s experiences with these AI coding assistance tools. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!”

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) makes transitioning to a multi-cloud architecture more efficient, allowing streamlined setup processes. Consistently evaluating and tuning resource allocations based on use patterns helps prevent overprovisioning and reduces unnecessary expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

The in-depth explorations are meticulously illustrated and code examples culminate as bulletproof code snippets, applicable to your work right away. 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. Web Performance Tuning.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

I have a lot of historical data using my ReadOnly benchmark (as described in some of the earliest entries in this blog [link] A read-only access pattern removes the need to understand and explain the many complexities associated with the “streaming stores” typically used in the STREAM benchmark (e.g., Stay tuned!

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 40

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. Go mobile first and performance first when designing and coding your next responsive website!

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Stay tuned! Large preview ).

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. VsChromium is a Visual Studio extension that keeps all of the source code in a monitored directory loaded into RAM. We know that this code is running too slow.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. of the “adjusted peak performance”, there is no longer a significant upside to performance tuning.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. Configure MySQL. monitoring.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. The ​​ following ​​ example is a code example taken from the following Microsoft Knowledge Base ​​ article. The page number on the page read from disk is not the expected page ID.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

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 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

She also teaches for Black Girls Code, and she founded the Dallas chapter of Girl Develop It and DFW Sass. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. He’s also the author of HTTP/2 in Action , a complete guide to HTTP/2. Doug Sillars. Doug Sillars. Estelle Weyl.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The following ​​ code ​​ example ​​ shows ​​ the setting ​​ of ​​ values ​​ in ​​ illegal ​​ array positions. 2000, and 2005 - replaced with SQLIOSim) ​​

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Java used to power core file system code. Python used to power client-side code, certain microservices, migration scripts, internal scripts. We use event-based sync in our desktop sync client code, as server events are happening they get pushed to the client from server and the client replays them locally.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52