SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. 10 x 1.9TB NVMe SSD.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

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. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This often happens out of an ad-hoc virtual team that forms in earlier stages but is now formalised and has long-term staffing. They routinely benchmark against their competition on important flows and can understand when a competitor has taken the initiative to catch up (it rarely happens through a single commit or launch).

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86