DZone

JULY 2, 2024

We have run these benchmarks on the AWS EC2 instances and designed a custom dataset to make it as close as possible to real application use cases. We compare throughput, operations per second, and latency under different loads, namely the P90 and P99 percentiles.

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Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

DZone

JULY 24, 2022

As well as the usual collection of bug fixes, this release includes some experimental new features designed to improve the performance of the JVM (see the release notes ). Sun released update 14 of the Java 6 JDK and JRE. One of these is Escape Analysis. What Is Escape Analysis?

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Java Benchmarking Design Performance 202

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. Most of us, as we spend years in our jobs — tend to be proficient in at least one of these.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This has been a guiding design principle with Metaflow since its inception. As a central ML and AI platform team, our role is to empower our partner teams with tools that maximize their productivity and effectiveness, while adapting to their specific needs (not the other way around).

Best Practices 200

Best Practices Cache Metrics Code 200

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services. Or, the team might use specific serverless designs as part of the modernization efforts. Measuring new performance requirements against benchmarks and other migration efforts can help teams refine processes and improve application usage and performance.

Strategy 264

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Cloud 264

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In the second approach, we show that a relatively simple, supervised sequential model (bidirectional LSTM or GRU) that uses rich, pretrained shot-level embeddings can outperform the current state-of-the-art baselines on our internal benchmarks. Figure 1: a scene consists of a sequence of shots.

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Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 258

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. AMD is now using the second-gen Infinity Fabric to connect a multi-chip design with a 14nm I/O die serving as the linchpin of the design. You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks. Why is container security tricky? Harden the host operating system. Remove privileges.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Note that most of the changes we’ve introduced so far and those that are detailed below are all designed to be invisible to you, taking place entirely automatically in the background.

Best Practices 246

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. As Netflix increasingly adopts eBPF [ 1 , 2 ], applying the same rigor to these applications as we do to other managed services is imperative.

Performance 178

Performance Benchmarking Programming Open Source 178

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. A recent TwThread drew my attention to this pre-print paper. Rahman et al. Optimisation opportunities testing.

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Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some technical notes on our submission to the benchmark committee. Background For the past few months engineers from Nutanix have been participating in the MLPerftm Storage benchmark which is designed to measure the storage performance required for ML training workloads. appeared first on n0derunner.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Servers Engineering 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. What is FinOps? This helps to prevent overprovisioning, underutilization of reserved instances, and hidden costs.

Cloud 246

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 246

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Vitality’s platform is designed to let customers take control of their own wellness by creating insurance and investment frameworks that best meet their needs. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. DEM in action.

Mobile 242

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 242

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. By Yaron Elyashiv.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 117

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. At the same time, we kept the design open enough to allow future extensibility. During the query schema design, we accounted for future use cases and ensured that it will allow future extensions. Incredible!”

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Media Innovation Energy Architecture 295

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Querying the data While it is reasonable to create panels showing real-time load in order to explore better the types of queries that can be run against pg_stat_monitor, it is more practical to copy and query the data into tables after the benchmarking has completed its run. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. Your APM tool should help you establish performance benchmarks, so you can understand what good performance looks like. Application performance insights.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 246

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. 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.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Use domain-driven design when creating new microservices by separating microservices via their underlying business functions. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices. When it comes to refactoring, teams should start with what they can understand.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

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. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

More than half (51%) of SREs say they dedicate significant time to influencing architectural design decisions to improve reliability. Integrating these developers with the design process provides insight that enables architects to incorporate reliability from day one. A shift to SRE-driven engineering takes hold.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

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

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Or, maybe, they can succeed as in getting comfy job at IBM, but their designs don't translate into useful products. JavaScript benchmark. Martin Sústrik : Philosophers, by and large, tend to be architecture astronauts. Programmers' insight is that architecture astronauts fail. That's not an obvious statement at all.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

Two benchmarks from users can be found here: [1] [2] 4. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together. Download Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL Today!

Cache 138

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 138

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The study is conducted using a suite of 7 real-world popular scientific applications, and two well-established benchmark suites: Miniaero solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. PARSEC is a set of benchmarks for multi-threaded programs. is a set of benchmarks for parallel computing developed by NASA. The applications.

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Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101