DZone

JANUARY 17, 2023

Building performant services and systems is at the core of every business. Tons of technologies emerge daily, promising capabilities that help you surpass your performance benchmarks. However, production environments are chaotic landscapes that exact a heavy performance toll when not maintained and monitored.

Network 312

Network Performance Benchmarking Infrastructure 312

DZone

JUNE 17, 2019

Recently there has been some discussions around service mesh benchmark tests. We are evaluating Netifi RSocket broker, and I think it would be nice to get a sense on the performance of RSocket broker using the same Istio setup. RSocket is an "application protocol providing Reactive Streams semantics."

Benchmarking 189

Benchmarking Cloud Architecture Testing 189

DZone

JUNE 2, 2019

Almost every time I present RSocket to an audience, there will be someone asking the question: "How does RSocket compare to gRPC?" " Today we are going to find out.

Benchmarking 279

Benchmarking Latency Java Scalability 279

n0derunner

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Recently I wanted to measure the impact of NUMA placement and Hugepages on the performance of postgres running in a VM on a Nutanix node. After reading a lot of blogs I came … The post Notes on tuning postgres for cpu and memory benchmarking appeared first on n0derunner.

Benchmarking 90

Benchmarking Tuning Storage Performance 90

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

This article takes a plunge into the comparative analysis of these two cult technologies, highlights the critical performance metrics concerning scalability considerations, and, through real-world use cases, gives you the clarity to confidently make an informed decision.

Scalability 264

Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

DZone

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One key factor that significantly affects the performance of data processing is the storage format of the data. This article explores the impact of different storage formats, specifically Parquet, Avro, and ORC on query performance and costs in big data environments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Big Data 278

Big Data Storage Analytics Benchmarking 278

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2025

In his first talk, The Service Mesh Wars: A New Hope for Kubernetes , Henrik compares and benchmarks five service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Cillium eBPF, Kuma, and Ambassador Edge) across multiple dimensions to demonstrate when and how to use them. CNCF Ambassador and Kubstronaut Class Photo. Im in the middle back waving my hand.

Open Source 260

Open Source Energy Benchmarking Tuning 260

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Now, let’s take a look at the throughput and latency performance of our comparison. Throughput.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

Benchmarking 138

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 138

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Performance Benchmarking of PostgreSQL on ScaleGrid vs. AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. PostgreSQL 14 : Focused on improving parallel query performance and increased functionality for JSON data types.

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

DZone

JULY 24, 2022

broke records and defeated top-ranked messaging services in benchmark tests. For years, researchers at UT Darmstadt have compared the performance of message-oriented middleware servers based on Java Messaging Service (JMS). Why wasn't it widely adopted?

Benchmarking 288

Benchmarking Open Source Java Servers 288

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a part of the “ Release better software faster ” breakout track at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , I’ll be presenting a session concentrating on deployment models and how to reduce risk and iterate faster. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. Dynatrace news. Customer story.

Performance 51

Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 51

Percona

JANUARY 6, 2025

At Percona, we’ve always prioritized performance, and recent trends in MySQL’s development have been a point of concern for us. In particular, the performance deterioration in the MySQL 8.4.x y versions caught our attention, as highlighted in Marco Tusas insightful blog post, Sakila, Where Are You Going?

Performance 142

Performance Development Benchmarking 142

Percona

APRIL 18, 2025

When unpredictable storage performance and complex state management made stability a constant battle? Remember when running databases in Kubernetes felt like a gamble? Thankfully, those days are largely behind us.

Best Practices 94

Best Practices Benchmarking Storage Strategy 94

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s worth noting that, by and large, the same page will perform better in iOS Safari than it would on Android Chrome— iPhones are generally far more powerful than their Android counterparts. WebPageTest is easily, by far, without a shadow of a doubt, the single most important tool when it comes to web performance. It’s vital.

Network 286

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 286

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

Retail 278

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. 34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction.

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Testing Performance Education 182

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article outlines the key differences in architecture, performance, and use cases to help determine the best fit for your workload. Architecture Comparison RabbitMQ and Kafka have distinct architectural designs that influence their performance and suitability for different use cases.

Latency 147

Latency Analytics Architecture Storage 147

DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2019

You may also like: SQL Server Tips and Techniques for Database Performance Optimization. The general perception is that benchmarks published by vendors can never be trusted; however, well-run benchmarks absolutely have their place, even if performed by a vendor.

Benchmarking 100

Benchmarking Performance Database Servers 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Jose Fernandez Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of bpftop , a command-line tool designed to streamline the performance optimization and monitoring of eBPF applications. This tool minimizes overhead by enabling performance statistics only while it is active.

Performance 181

Performance Benchmarking Programming Open Source 181

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. This process includes benchmarking realistic SLO targets based on statistical and probabilistic analysis from Dynatrace.

Software 306

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

DZone

JUNE 21, 2024

This article analyzes the correlation between block sizes and their impact on storage performance. It is one of the deciding factors for storage performance. Block size is a crucial element in performance benchmarking for storage products and categorizing the products into block, file, and object segments.

Storage 162

Storage Performance Benchmarking Processing 162

DZone

MAY 27, 2019

Today I want to measure if there is any performance overhead of running MySQL in Kubernetes, and show what challenges I faced trying to measure it. I will use a very simple CPU-bound benchmark to measure MySQL performance in OLTP read-only workload:

Performance 159

Performance Benchmarking Servers Systems 159

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

Metrics 246

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 246

DZone

JUNE 18, 2019

????????????????????????????. JMH stands for Java Micro-benchmark Harness and is a toolkit used for implementing benchmarks for applications running on JVM.??.

Benchmarking 100

Benchmarking Java Engineering Performance 100

DZone

JULY 24, 2022

As well as the usual collection of bug fixes, this release includes some experimental new features designed to improve the performance of the JVM (see the release notes ). Sun released update 14 of the Java 6 JDK and JRE. One of these is Escape Analysis. What Is Escape Analysis?

Java 202

Java Benchmarking Design Performance 202

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Performance vs Perceived Performance.

Benchmarking 133

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 133

DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a previous article , we explained how we built benchmarks to keep track of those three metrics: precision, recall, and the most important here, speed. These benchmarks taught us a lot about the true internals of our engine at runtime and led to our first improvements.

Processing 243

Processing Benchmarking Speed Engineering 243

DZone

JANUARY 22, 2020

Measure Java performance! You may also like: JMH: Benchmark REST APIs. You may also like: JMH: Benchmark REST APIs. From JDK-12 onwards, the JDK comes with JMH (Java Microbenchmark Harness), It is a toolkit that helps you implement Java microbenchmarks correctly.

Java 162

Java Benchmarking Performance Virtualization 162

Percona

APRIL 1, 2025

Picking the right option is critical, directly impacting performance, reliability, and scalability. As more organizations move their PostgreSQL databases onto Kubernetes, a common question arises: Which storage solution best handles its demands?

Storage 65

Storage Benchmarking Scalability Database 65

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

Benchmarking 266

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 266

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 8, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this topic.

Systems 138

Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 138

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Additionally, with an improved deployment model, applications can run faster and perform better. Application performance improvement reduces costs and deployment time.

Strategy 264

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Cloud 264

DZone

MAY 14, 2020

The performance claims made and the hype surrounding the Graviton2 had us itching to see how our high-performance database would perform. This article compares KeyDB running on several different M5 & M6g EC2 instances to get some insight into cost, performance, and use case benefits.

AWS 130

AWS Benchmarking Database Performance 130

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. Ahem, Slow!

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214