Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Some applications perform better by tuning a parameter and some don’t. wal_buffers. Conclusion.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

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. All these contribute significantly towards ensuring smooth functioning.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

O'Reilly

MARCH 25, 2025

Evaluation : How do we evaluate such systems, especially when outputs are qualitative, subjective, or hard to benchmark? Slow response/high cost : Optimize model usage or retrieval efficiency. Iteration: Iterate quickly using prompt engineering, embeddings, tool use, fine-tuning, business logic, and more! How do we do so?

Systems 69

Systems Development Tuning Monitoring 69

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Some of these examples have been hand-tuned to make them efficient for TLC to check, no such tuning is done for APALACHE. 4 seconds on this same benchmark). We hope that with the growing number of users, specifications will get tuned to our model checker, as is now happening with TLC.

Tuning 106

Tuning Benchmarking Efficiency Systems 106

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. Convolutional Capsule primitives can be implemented reasonably efficiently on CPU but problems arise on accelerators (e.g. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Have you tuned your environment? This means they can ensure that every possible scenario is tested, from data integrity checks to performance benchmarks. Third-party services typically already have these tools and the expertise to use them, providing more efficient and accurate testing. Have you built a testing environment?

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Cloud Services Choosing the right cloud services is crucial in developing an efficient multi cloud strategy. Adopting spot instances for less critical tasks, which are less expensive than on-demand or reserved instances, is an efficient way of managing expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 111

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 111

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Stay tuned!

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. It fundamentally helps you plan ahead to reduce risk and reach the destination in a more efficient and effective way. Maybe you might want to pack a second spare tire.

Design 112

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 112

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Stay tuned! Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00. 2022-06-03T14:03:11+00:00.

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Source: Guy Podjarny However, we do now have a full set of techniques to effectively deliver highly performative sites that not only visually scale across devices but also deliver code and assets tuned to the width of a device. There are great tools available to monitor the actual in browser speed and benchmark your site against others.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Focus on making your infrastructure more efficient before you even think about investing in more. What is Performance Testing? Consider optimizing before investing.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries. ensures that only relevant partitions are accessed, further enhancing query efficiency. Partition pruning, a feature in MySQL 5.7,

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. Hey Microsoft – I’ve got a cool idea for how you can make file notifications more efficient. You know where to find me. Weaponizing this knowledge.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. Lazy write (LRU and memory-pressure based) Checkpoint (recovery-interval based) Eager write (nonlogged I/O based) To ​​ efficiently flush writes to disk, ​​ WriteFileGather ​​ is used.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e.,

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e.,

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Although ​​ SQL Server ​​ tries ​​ to use the log space as efficiently as possible, ​​ certain application patterns cause the log-block fill percentages to remain small. ​​ This creates 8?KB

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Version7 (Future): Move all compute to the public cloud, carve out more services for impact isolation, dynamic resource pooling to manage pets and cattle efficiently. For permissions data, we have rearchitected that layer many times and recently we wrote a TRIE to cache this efficiently. This is the current architecture.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52