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. This study benchmarks PostgreSQL performance across two leading managed database platforms—ScaleGrid and AWS RDS—using versions 13, 14, and 15.

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Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

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.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Education 182

DZone

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, driving the maximum value out of the metaverse concept requires immediate access to testing to validate the innovation benchmarks while working on user experience. In other words, the Metaverse will be the next big move for the transformation we will witness with all the upcoming applications, websites, and software solutions.

Virtualization 189

Virtualization Software Software Benchmarking 189

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The divisibility test is similar… uint64_t c = 1 + UINT64_C ( 0xffffffffffffffff ) / d ; // given precomputed c, checks whether n % d == 0. To test it out, we did many things, but in one particular tests, we used a hashing function that depends on the computation of the remainder. I make my benchmarking code available.

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Testing Hardware 279

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. DigitalOcean.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

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. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

Benchmarking 133

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 133

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. According to Six Sigma Daily, poor testing leads to overruns amounting to up to 40% of an operation’s budget.

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Benchmarking Latency Software Software 246

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Next, we are going to test and compare the latency performance between ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup. Here is the configuration we used for the ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean benchmark performance tests highlighted above: Configuration.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

DZone

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

There are many types of software testing that you can use to improve your products. How Much of a Company's Budget Is Spent on Quality Assurance and Testing? That means software testing spending is up 13% from 2017. A whopping 39% globally this year.

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Software Software Testing Benchmarking 149

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Frequently, practitioners want to experiment with variants of these flows, testing new data, new parameterizations, or new algorithms, while keeping the overall structure of the flow or flowsintact. A natural solution is to make flows configurable using configuration files, so variants can be defined without changing the code.

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Best Practices Cache Metrics Code 200

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. According to other comparisons [Google for 'Performance of Programming Languages'] spread over the net, they clearly outshine others in all speed benchmarks. Input The input will contain several test cases (not more than 10).

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Run source code tests.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Release validation is a DevOps methodology that tests a software component to verify that it meets its release criteria before being released to the next phase of development or to production. While developing an application, service, or piece of code, it is critical to test the releases during defined milestones.

DevOps 264

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 264

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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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. Below is a Dynatrace honeycomb chart depicting the performance of the synthetics tests tracked by the Dynatrace Business Insights team.

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Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 278

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That we probably aren’t testing. If you don’t have an iPhone, well, you’ll struggle to test an iPhone. Testing with WebPageTest. Testing in Safari’s DevTools. What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 296

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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?

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Common user action metrics (or performance testing metrics) measured and monitored in DEM include the following: User action duration. Document these metrics, including the benchmark values and any insights gained from analysis, to use as a reference for tracking progress and evaluating the effectiveness of optimization efforts over time.

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Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 264

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances.

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Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

HammerDB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The key findings of the article were as follows: This server had a HammerDB benchmark running against it. One possibility – and in this case, the most probable conclusion – is that the client test machine was overwhelmed and could not respond to the server fast enough. But why are we running a COPY operation during a benchmark anyway?

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Benchmarking Performance Metrics Database 68

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

As organizations aim for faster delivery of value to their customers, the frequency of releases inevitably increases, which introduces risks and uncertainty into production systems—unless automated tests and quality gates can be leveraged to provide confidence. What are quality gates?

Cloud 246

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 246

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

MySQL on AWS Performance Test. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. MySQL Performance Test Scenarios and Results. Each scenario is run with varying number of sysbench client threads ranging from 50 to 400, and each test is run for a duration of 10 minutes. Amazon RDS. Instance Type. DB Instance r4.xlarge

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. Basic complexity testing. Optimisation opportunities testing. A recent TwThread drew my attention to this pre-print paper.

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Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications. Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development.

Java 261

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Although the default configuration simulates loading based loosely upon TPC-B, it is nevertheless easy to test other use cases by writing one’s own transaction script files. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash tps, lat 11.718 ms stddev 3.951 progress: 4440.0 tps, lat 11.075 ms stddev 3.519 progress: 4445.0

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

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 . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

If you haven’t done so already, providing a testing environment for developers to easily test their functions with AWS solves most of these challenges and makes the required tooling similar to what’s required for operating microservices. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

If you haven’t done so already, providing a testing environment for developers to easily test their functions with AWS solves most of these challenges and makes the required tooling similar to what’s required for operating microservices. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

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Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 47

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

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Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63