HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Supported Databases. Derived Workloads.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 29, 2019

Running speed tests with tools like Google PageSpeed Insights , WebPageTest , or KeyCDN’s Website Speed Test are always a good way to help gauge your website’s performance. Why Care About Page Speed? There are a multitude of reasons why you should care about page speed. A site which loads in 2.6

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 126

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It also lists cached resources and identifies unused Javascript. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. PageSpeed Compare.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness.

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. There are already standard benchmark suites for JavaScript performance in the browser, and we can include applications written in node.js (server-side JavaScript), Python web servers, and more.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. You can create your own on Chrome UX Dashboard. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 117

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. This 14nm first-generation AMD EPYC 7551 processor has 32 cores and 64 threads, and it works in one or two-socket servers. The L3 cache size is 64MB. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. The Moto G4 , for example. How bad is it?

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. Global Ground-Truth.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. The most popular, by far, is the Google Lighthouse report (available in Chrome Developer Tools) and Google’s Page Speed Insights.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Application Servers. Apache FTP server.

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