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. is access to hardware devices. This is as it should be. Shape Detection.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

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.

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Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

HammerDB

JULY 6, 2024

In a recent project comparing systems for MariaDB performance, a user had originally been using a tool called sysbench-tpcc to compare hardware platforms before migrating to HammerDB. This is a brief post to highlight the metrics to use to do the comparison using a separate hardware platform for illustration purposes. sys%-11.44

C++ 52

C++ Hardware Benchmarking Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow. They use “do what it takes” language to describe the efforts to get and stay fast.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Of course, any trend that can't continue won't, and INP 's impact is already being felt.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Talk about a hard target. Reliance Jio, mostly.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform. The two sub-variants differ in ambition owing to the market positions of their OS sponsors.

Benchmarking 60

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 60

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 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. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

This might be very different for your company, of course, but that’s a close enough approximation of a majority of customers out there. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Both of them are great introductions for diving into Webpack.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

HammerDB

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this post, we revisit how to interpret transactional database performance metrics and give guidance on what levels of performance should be expected on up-to-date hardware and software in 2024. tpmC tpmC is the transactions per minute metric that is the measurement of the official TPC-C benchmark from the TPC-Council.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Performance 58