Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 125

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 125

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264 and have only increased both our device and content reach since then.

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Innovation Traffic Network Efficiency 239

n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Use a mix of macro and micro benchmarks Understand what you are testing, cached results are fine – as long as that is what you had intended. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Reading time 8 min Rigor’s “The Best in Performance” interview series offers the chance to listen in on conversations with web performance industry experts, thought leaders, and technologists as they discuss current trends, challenges, and lessons that impact the performance and APM space today. Retrospectives.

Performance 68

Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Web Performance APIs.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145