Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Of course, cloud application modernization solutions are not always focused on rebuilding from the ground up. Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services. Old applications that are not optimized for mobile may require replatforming. What do you need to modernize your applications?

Strategy 264

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Cloud 264

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Configs can of course also be used within yourflow. Unlike parameters, configs can be used more widely in your flow code, particularly, they can be used in step or flow level decorators as well as to set defaults for parameters. you can define arbitrary parsers using a string means the parser doesnt even have to be present remotely!

Best Practices 204

Best Practices Cache Metrics Code 204

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. If we look over the course of “Cyberweek” (below), no retailers experienced massive spikes indicating digital performance issues.

Retail 278

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This, of course, is exacerbated by the new Vitals announcement, whereby data from the Chrome User eXperience Report will be used to aid and influence rankings. 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

HammerDB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The key findings of the article were as follows: This server had a HammerDB benchmark running against it. But why are we running a COPY operation during a benchmark anyway? So this COPY statement is coming from the schema build phase and not the HammerDB benchmark workload at all.

Benchmarking 68

Benchmarking Performance Metrics Database 68

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Of course, this requires a VM that provides rock-solid isolation, and in AWS Lambda, this is the Firecracker microVM. In this case, as the provisioning life cycle diagram shows, the worker node has to be provisioned with the given Lambda function, which does, of course, take some time. The virtual CPU is turned off.

Lambda 278

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 278

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

For example, a good course of action is knowing which impacted servers run mission-critical services and remediating those first. This advanced warning allowed the life insurance provider to execute a contingency plan and course of action much earlier than if they had to wait for the third-party provider to notify them of the problem.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Of course, as with all vulnerability management solutions, there was and is the risk that vulnerabilities are exploited while DevSecOps teams are working to fix them. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Of course, we have opinions on all of these, but we think those arent the most useful questions to ask right now. Weve taught this SDLC in a live course with engineers from companies like Netflix, Meta, and the US Air Force and recently distilled it into a free 10-email course to help teams apply it in practice. How do we do so?

Systems 69

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 69

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

Metrics 327

Metrics Google Code Monitoring 327

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Verifying benchmark claims. I picked these examples because they aren't operations that show up in standard data warehousing benchmarks, yet are meaningful parts of customer workloads. Verifying benchmark claims. I've noticed a troubling trend in vendor benchmarking claims over the past year.

Cloud 115

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 115

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. Of course, with new locations we will always introduce a separate pool of IP addresses as well. Dynatrace news. After 1 December 2019 Dynatrace Synthetic will use the new set of IP addresses .

Scalability 29

Scalability Traffic Monitoring Benchmarking 29

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, in some cases the difference to performance is small enough that one can live with it, but it’s often bad enough to be a problem. Eli Bendersky : Just for fun, I rewrote the same benchmark in Go; two goroutines ping-ponging short message between themselves over a channel.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. With Treo Site Speed, you can also benchmark a website against competitors. WebPageTest is, of course, a performance testing suite on its own. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

Performance 134

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 134

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

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

JANUARY 11, 2024

From that time to now, we had several MySQL releases and, of course, also some new MySQL Router ones.Most importantly, we also had MySQL Router going back to being a level 7 proxy […] In my previous article, Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL, I showed how MySQL Router was the lesser performing Proxy in the comparison.

Performance 114

Performance Benchmarking Availability Servers 114

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Benchmark before you decide. have been released since then with some major changes. For database servers, we usually recommend our clients have: Jemalloc installed and enabled for MySQL.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In production environments, it is observed that a large value for shared_buffer gives really good performance, though you should always benchmark to find the right balance. Plus another recent post on benchmarks: Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc. Optimizing your database is one way to course-correct poor database performance.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79

HammerDB

JUNE 22, 2023

Turning Jobs Off and On Of course one of the most important aspects is to be able to disable the functionality. In HammerDB v4.7 introduced the concept of Jobs to the CLI, a central repository to store workload output, configuration and results. To turn the functionality on or off in the CLI use the jobs disable command.

Benchmarking 58

Benchmarking C++ Virtualization Database 58

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This means they can ensure that every possible scenario is tested, from data integrity checks to performance benchmarks. Then, of course, there’s the possibility of issues arising post- migration. Third-party services typically already have these tools and the expertise to use them, providing more efficient and accurate testing.

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2024

This is an important consideration that is often missed, so although it seems obvious, it is worth reiterating that benchmarking applications are not typically designed to be disconnected and the database restarted whilst the workload is running. When you create the virtual users, you can see the iterations value in the central panel.

Database 52

Database Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s of course doubtful that you will be able to achieve the same savings that I’ll be showing here, but you will get some useful pointers and tips on things to keep in mind when dealing with videos. However, typical frame rates on the web are 25–30, so the first thing we can do is to re-encode the video with a lower bitrate.

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

In this course of 8 years, WWT tried, failed, learned and succeeded. We believe in benchmarks, and in this span of 9 years, we have built our own benchmarks, and keep trying to attain more than those benchmarks. World Web Technology Pvt. The rate of success has been the maximum though, and why should it not be?

Technology 52

Technology Technology Benchmarking Games 52

Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

In this course of 8 years, WWT tried, failed, learned and succeeded. We believe in benchmarks, and in this span of 9 years, we have built our own benchmarks, and keep trying to attain more than those benchmarks. World Web Technology Pvt. The rate of success has been the maximum though, and why should it not be?

Technology 52

Technology Technology Benchmarking Games 52

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Of course, you can customize the inputs as you wish to test the performance of your solutions. It will be used as a benchmark. This means I'll get the following total numbers of rows in the table: 100,000, 200,000, 300,000, and 400,000. Cursor-Based Solution. Peter provided the cursor-based solution.

C++ 133

C++ Code Benchmarking Performance 133

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. Comments ().

AWS 62

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 62

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course! For Fedora, one person requested: "Meta and/or Netflix should provide infrastructure for a side repository in which the change can be tested and benchmarked and the code size measured." We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

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. But that won’t solve the ordering issue of course.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. A Piazza-style class forum discussion application with 1M posts, 1,000 classes, and a privacy policy allowing TAs to see anonymous posts is used as the basis for benchmarking. Expressing privacy policies. It runs to about 2,000 lines of Rust.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. Of course you can use TCL scripting to configure complex build and test scenarios including the execution of host commands. dbset db command. Running the CLI from the OS Shell.

Virtualization 74

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 74