The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers. NativeLoglet implements seal by setting a bit on a quorum of servers. Every little helps! Reconfiguration. In production, Facebook use the NativeLoglet in converged form.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. According to Monetate , the following conversion rate results were gathered for Q3 of 2017 until Q3 of 2018. In this article we’re going to discuss various methods for improving eCommerce conversion rates.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

A 2017 study by Akamai says as much when it found that even a 100ms delay in page load can decrease conversions by 7% and lose 1% of their sales for every 100ms it takes for their site to load which, at the time of the study, was equivalent to $1.6 billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Are things better?

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

— Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. KEY partitioning KEY partitioning is similar to HASH partitioning, except that only one or more columns to be evaluated are specified, and the MySQL server provides its own hashing function. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Periodically review and adjust.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

His keynote address from O’Reilly Fluent 2017, Reflecting on 20 years on the web , is a must-see. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine until October 2017 when he passed the baton to the remarkable Rachel Andrew. The future of HTTP/2 server push. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt. Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98