n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

Performance 128

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 128

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Optimize on prem cold storage cost. You can reach him at @kpatelwork.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52