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. DOM Scripting.

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 Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same. innodb_file_per_table.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ However, the ​​ algorithm ​​ has been ​​ tuned ​​ and the resulting ​​ affect ​​ is ​​ minimal. ​​ Checksum ​​ is ​​ the default database setting in SQL Server 2005.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40