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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

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

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

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. DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

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

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

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

Scalegrid

APRIL 10, 2025

Understanding MongoDB End of Life (EOL) Policies MongoDB End of Life (EOL) policies are designed to provide users with a clear roadmap of each MongoDB versions lifecycle. Testing and Validation Post-upgrade, its vital to conduct performance benchmarking to confirm that the new setup operates within acceptable parameters.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Benchmarking Strategy Database 130

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. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging. Messaging doesn’t do that.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle. With the advent of generative AI, therell be significant opportunities for product managers, designers, executives, and more traditional software engineers to contribute to and build AI-powered software.

Systems 67

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 67

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. That allows it to go a bit further. and ProxySQL 6.6k.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. It is designed to cache plain text values, offering fast read and write access to frequently accessed data. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity. Global Reach and Cloud Integration ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

n0derunner

AUGUST 20, 2020

Each bare-metal instance is in a separate rack by design (for fault tolerance). The post Cross rack network latency in AWS appeared first on n0derunner. The bandwidth is 25GbE however, the response time between the hosts is so high that I need multiple streams to consume that bandwidth.

Latency 40

Latency Network AWS Design 40

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

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. The design space. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). On Athena, Q2 timed out after an hour, and Q8, Q9 and Q21 failed after exhausting resources.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Establishing clear service-level agreements is key as they outline specific responsibilities and performance benchmarks expected from cloud service providers during disaster recovery scenarios. Scalegrid: Your Multi-Cloud Strategy Solution ScaleGrid.io

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

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. For example, an area where Apple is absolutely killing it is in mobile CPU design.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 99

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 99

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Recent Entries.

AWS 62

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 62

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? How to make your website faster. References.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. It simulates a link with a 400ms RTT and 400-600Kbps of throughput (plus latency variability and simulated packet loss). Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 74

Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Redirects are often pretty light in terms of the latency that they add to a website, but they are an easy first thing to check, and they can generally be removed with little effort.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. They feature low latency, local NVMe storage that can directly leverage the 128 PCIe 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) and the 2.4 Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies. Our design needed to scale and be adaptable to the modern hardware on the market. one without a replica).

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Latency Optimizers” – need support for very large federated deployments. The 5G standard implies that we will go from 5-10 data centers to anything up to 1000 small.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. If you or your company are able to generate a credible worldwide latency estimate in the higher percentiles for next year's update, please get in touch. For topological reasons I expect next year's report to show similar progress in bandwidth but not RTTs.

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98