The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.

Infrastructure 239

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 239

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 109

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

Tuning 138

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

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

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 47

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

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable.

Performance 128

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 128

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Consistently evaluating and tuning resource allocations based on use patterns helps prevent overprovisioning and reduces unnecessary expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . Additionally for the log disk component it is latency for an individual write that is crucial rather than the total I/O bandwidth. A good example of how tuning is an iterative process. Checkpoint not complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

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. Wait time: Sometimes called average latency, wait time refers the amount of time a request spends in a queue before it gets processed. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Each of the two vector units can issue one FMA instruction per cycle, assuming that there are enough independent accumulators to tolerate the 6-cycle dependent-operation latency. of the “adjusted peak performance”, there is no longer a significant upside to performance tuning. vfmadd213pd %zmm16, %zmm17, %zmm26.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. Benchmarks should be established to measure the latency introduced by the WAF, ensuring it stays within acceptable limits.‍Conclusion‍In Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Two of them are particularly gnarly: fine-tuning rules to perfection and managing a WAF over a multi-CDN architecture. The Internet doesn't stand still, and neither should your security efforts.The WAF Challenge‍Even with the robust structure of a Web Application Firewall (WAF), there are obstacles to navigate.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 3.80

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. Dirty Page Latency ​​ – A page is considered dirty when data modifications have taken place.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation. Action Description Manual Checkpoint – Target Specified I/O latency target set to ​​ the default ​​ of ​​ 20ms.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40