Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. So, stay tuned for more blog posts and announcements.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Security should be an integral part of each stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from development to monitoring in real time. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices. This includes when teams refactor applications for microservices architecture.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. In summary, this model was a tightly-coupled application-to-data architecture, where machine learning algos were mixed with the backend and UI/UX software code stack.

Media 299

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 299

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

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes. What’s next?

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

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

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

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. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

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

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. They also do live system design discussions every week.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

Cache 124

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 124

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Which software is the best fit for your organization? Have you tuned your environment? Additionally, it involves the acquisition or development of specialized testing software, which often comes with its own set of training requirements. What is the best path to migrate? Should you consider a phased migration or a full cutover?

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We used the first processor socket for the MySQL database and the second socket for the benchmark (sysbench or HammerDB).

Performance 55

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 55

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. Tuning InnoDB Primary Keys.

Database 50

Database Tuning Performance AWS 50

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Analyzing read/write workload by counts.

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 72

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. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

Programming 68

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 68

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It’s important to ensure the bells and whistles of any software-as-a-service (SaaS) they offer can support where you aim to take your business, keeping your strategy tight and on track. Consistently evaluating and tuning resource allocations based on use patterns helps prevent overprovisioning and reduces unnecessary expenses.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements.

Open Source 111

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 111

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

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. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What? Stay tuned! It is unlikely that they will be the same, as x-heights differ greatly. This is a question that is not easily answered.

Performance 123

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. 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.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 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. CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 . 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

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level. Filter Drivers Many implementations of backup software, antivirus programs, and other applications are deployed as I/O system filter drivers.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. That’s because once the software environment has been set up (e.g., using “22” for the year 2022). and chrono-node.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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. Attackers discover a previously unknown vulnerability in a software or system. Benchmarks should be established to measure the latency introduced by the WAF, ensuring it stays within acceptable limits.‍Conclusion‍In

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

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

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. They exploit unknown vulnerabilities, giving developers zero days to fix the issue—hence the name.‍Attackers discover a previously unknown vulnerability in a software or system. Let's dive deep into these challenges.‍1.

Traffic 40

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Malfunctioning virus protection Heavy use of compression Network unresponsiveness Dual I/O path software malfunctions Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enhancements The following section outlines the ​​ core ​​ I/O ​​ enhancements made in SQL Server 2005. For more information about DOD-5012.2

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40