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

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 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

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.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

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. Steve & Tim's Close-up Magic.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 17, 2018

The tools use either the referenced or the idle page flags to measure a page-based WSS, and were developed out of necessity for another performance problem. ## Method 1: Referenced Page Flag This uses a kernel feature added in Linux 2.6.22: the ability to set and read the referenced page flag from user space, added for analyzing memory usage.

Cache 71

Cache Latency C++ Programming 71