Benchmarking Design Operating System 
ACM Sigarch
APRIL 2, 2025
To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. These products see systems from the “outside” perspective—which is to say, the attacker’s perspective. Harden the host operating system. Why is container security tricky?
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John McCalpin
APRIL 25, 2023
This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., GHz, 1530 GB/s peak BW from 6 HBM stacks), I see single-thread sustained memory bandwidth of 304 GB/s on the ReadOnly benchmark used here.
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. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.
O'Reilly
MARCH 25, 2025
This creates a whole new set of challenges that traditional software development approaches simply weren’t designed to handle. When your system is both ingesting messy real-world data AND producing nondeterministic outputs, you need a different approach. Iteration : We know we need to experiment with and iterate on these system.
Smashing Magazine
MARCH 2, 2021
While many of us, designers and developers, are likely to have a relatively new mobile phone in our pockets, a vast majority of our customers isn’t quite like us. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions.
HammerDB
JANUARY 5, 2019
Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”
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