Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

Evergreen Continuous Integration: Why We Reinvented The Wheel , blog post from July 27, 2016, explains why and how it was done. The paper Creating a Virtuous Cycle in Performance Testing at MongoDB and pre-recoded video are already available. First, to set up the scene, MongoDB has its own Continuous Integration.

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Performance Testing Education 182

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.

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Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz).

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 114

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments.

Open Source 79

Open Source Programming Database Servers 79

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Modern network performance and availability. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. As 128GB DDR4 DIMMs become more widely available that total capacity will double. Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. 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. Higher is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145