Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Prioritize monitoring efforts to ensure the performance metrics align with your organization’s goals and user expectations. Common user action metrics (or performance testing metrics) measured and monitored in DEM include the following: User action duration. The time taken to complete the page load. Time to first byte.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. What is synthetic monitoring?

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

ScaleGrid’s MySQL on AWS High Performance deployment can provide 2x-3x the throughput at half the latency of Amazon RDS for MySQL with their added advantage of having 2 read replicas as compared to 1 in RDS. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS. Instance Type.

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Abstracta

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Discover the essentials of benchmark software testing and how it enhances software quality. The post Benchmark Software Testing Unveiled appeared first on Blog about Software Development, Testing, and AI | Abstracta. This guide will help you to get the most out of your software.

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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. Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Image by Freepik On-demand testing has sparked a lot of discussion here at SpeedCurve over the past year. You've always had the ability to manually trigger a round of tests – based on the scheduled tests in your settings – using the 'Test Now' button. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

This is to try to understand how a "typical" page might perform, as well as pages in the longtail. These numbers should NOT be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Use performance budgets to fight regression Page bloat happens when people stop paying attention. I'll go into this more below.

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n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads. We supply a pre-configured scenario which we call the DB Colocation test. The DB Colocation test utilizes two properties of X-Ray not found in other benchmarking tools. Time based benchmark actions. Distinct per-VM workload patterns.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). I intentionally left out the numbers for video, because they seemed inconsistent. Not all pages are getting bigger. Fight regression.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. However what if you want to review performance data in real time as the test is running?

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n0derunner

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” The simplest test is to run a single VM, with a single disk and issue a single IO at a time. This is a much more difficult test to conduct, and many end-users lack access and experience with tools that can give the full picture. The single VM test is using only a fraction of the cluster capacity. The post You are here.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. . Why Is Android Device Testing Important? That’s the point that calls for comprehensive testing when it comes to Android development.

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Speed Curve

MAY 31, 2014

As of the 1st of June SpeedCurve has switched to using faster testing agents at Amazon EC2 data centers. As web pages become more Javascript and resource heavy I've noticed more and more pages max out the CPU while performance testing. medium instances which have 3.75GB of RAM with faster CPU and network performance.

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n0derunner

OCTOBER 4, 2019

HammerDB is a great tool for running Database benchmarks. However it is very easy to create an artificial bottleneck which will give a very poor benchmark result. When setting up HammerDB to run against even a moderate modern server, it is important to avoid displaying the client transaction outputs in the HammerDB UI.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Setting up Varnish for Statamic was quite easy and my website performance improved drastically ( you can see load and performance testing benchmarks here ). Few months back I managed to get Statamic working with Varnish. One of the biggest challenges was Varnish cache invalidation on content update.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. and 4.14.12 In more detail: ## 1.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

One of the most effective ways to fight performance regression is to integrate performance testing into your continuous delivery process. This is a natural extension of using performance budgets in an ongoing, meaningful way. In other words, performance regressions are caught before they make it to production.

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n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. The variation in the transaction rate is due to the benchmark itself, the transaction rate is not expected to be uniform. Effect of removing CPU constraints and maintaining data locality on a running DB instance. The DB is running on a Host which is CPU constrained.

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

One thing is clear: when planning for the consumer experience to be simple and easy to use, the backend infrastructure and performance becomes much more complicated. Whatever size of company you are, performance monitoring and testing is a critical part of the success you will have. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

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n0derunner

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For our purposes we are going to use Postgres DB and the built-in benchmarking tool PGbench. X-Ray can run Ansible scripts on the X-Ray worker VMs, and by doing so we are able to provision almost any application. I have deliberately created a very small DB which fits into the VM memory and does almost no IO. X-Ray interface to pgbench.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Not being entirely sure of what I was seeing during a customer visit, I set out to create some simple tests to measure the impact of triggers on database performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD. Tuning PostgreSQL Database Parameters to Optimize Performance.

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Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

And if you do work for a startup or small organization with no budget for performance, there are plenty of free tools on the market you can use to run one-off performance tests until you’re able to invest. I recommend checking out WebPageTest , Google PageSpeed Insights , or Rigor’s Free Performance Report. Conclusion.

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Particular Software

DECEMBER 18, 2018

When we attempted to do performance testing of the new transport to compare it to the legacy transport, we discovered that it is essentially impossible to run benchmarks on the Standard Tier.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. and 4.14.12 In more detail: ## 1.

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Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

This is to try to understand how a "typical" page might perform, as well as pages in the "longtail". It's super important to understand longtail performance. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Use performance budgets to fight regression Page bloat happens when people stop paying attention.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In addition, Rigor allows you to view deep-dive reporting or to produce higher-level executive dashboards that can be shared with stakeholders who just need the basic facts about performance. Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years. Solutions like Rigor can test for over 300 performance best practices.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

Performance Testing. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. For good measure, we ran the same tests without a connection pooler too. Testing Conditions. Final Words.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

SQLIOStress.exe The SQLIOStress test program (version 4.00.020 and later) contains special patterns to detect stale-read/lost-write problems quickly. Important If you are experiencing problems with I/O stability or speed, Microsoft SQL Server Support may recommend disabling the filter driver to test results.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It measures the web performance of a single page using Google PageSpeed Insights. It can also compare the performance of multiple pages of your site or those of your competitors’ websites. The tests can be run for both mobile and desktop. Large preview ).

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

DORA compliance initiatives can help drive a risk-based approach to application security, including exposure management, security testing, threat detection and response, and software supply chain security. Conduct digital operational resilience testing to simulate various scenarios. Critical systems testing. Penetration testing.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Now you have something measurable to test against.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. We use a variant of git-flow, for every ticket, we clone the repo and we run automation tests on every merge request. How do you test your system? How you analyze performance?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, Paul Irish.

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