The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

This benchmark can synthetically generate more precise key-value queries that represent the reads and writes of key-value stores to the underlying storage system. TL;DR : YCSB workload generation doesn’t take into account the distribution of hot key locations within the key space. FAST’20. You get good at what you practice.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., VLDB’19. Academic papers aren’t usually set to music, but if they were the chorus of Queen’s “I want it all (and I want it now…)” seems appropriate here. Well, I say the future, but “ Procella has now been in production for multiple years.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124