Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16 mysqld] datadir=/home/mysql/mysql-8.0.16/mysql-8.0.16-linux-glibc2.12-x86_64/data

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

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. SELECT DISTINCT c from sbtest where id between ? order by c. SELECT c from sbtest where id=? Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40