SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. BTW, the "i" in the Standard_E64is_v3 naming means that the instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

Java 137

Java Cache Google Hardware 137

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. position: sticky.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Teams with this support are free to set performance budgets, do “bakeoffs” between competing approaches, and invest in performance infrastructure. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Performance budgets keep everyone on the same.

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Performance Network Benchmarking Mobile 74

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 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. 1] For these sites, we have to factor in the heavy cost of running JavaScript on the client when describing how much content we can afford. But that's not the whole story!

Performance 98

Performance Network Mobile Speed 98

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain. 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.

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Performance Network Mobile Metrics 127

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

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). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

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Performance Cache Servers Network 112

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

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). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. compared to early 2015. Image credit: Addy Osmani ) ( Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Infrastructure Optimization. What Infrastructure Do You Use? The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? Video Transcoding. Permissions. Recommendations. Hybrid Sync. On prem data processing. Large files or low bandwidth.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52