Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. Ford, et al., “TCP

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MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Website performance & speed plays a major role in the success of an online business. Many people often confuse site speed with page speed grades of performance testing tools, which are actually calculated based on multiple factors of a page including its loading speed. Daniel An, Google, 2017.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Search for recent blog posts on Linux containers, and try them out, and you'll piece together their capabilities and workings bit by bit. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less).

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That means that 3GB functions might not see a linear speed bump for primarily single threaded functions. We haven’t tried out SAR yet since it was only pre-announced, but when we do we’ll give an update here, on the blog. without web app servers?—?to We plan to test this out when we get the chance. Lambda@Edge Lambda@Edge?—?Lambda

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Learn more: View our webinar on How to Scale with MongoDB.

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MachMetrics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

They get even MORE impatient when it comes to website speed. Conversion: 1 second delay means a 7% reduction in conversions Speed Affects Revenue: If your site makes $100,000/month, a one second improvement in page speed brings $7,000 month. “ The results were clear—speed matters! Want proof?

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 10, 2018

SQL Server Books Online documents Instant File Initialization and the associated security considerations. This blog highlights the underlying file system implementations and differences in behavior between Windows and Linux. SQL Server performs the following API calls when creating or extending (growing) data and log files.

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. SSL certificates maintain the security of data between servers. CDNs essentially act as the backbone for high speed internet content delivery and performance.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll dig into MySQL query optimization and show how MySQL uses indexes in cases of queries using sorting and limiting. The global default can be set at server startup. The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. Check out this blog to learn how to avoid disaster! So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Additionally, MySQL 8.0 Upgrading MySQL to 8.0?

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. We at Rigor respect many web performance leaders around the world. Rachel Andrew.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web development is evolving at a rapid speed with each passing year. To make it easier for you, in this blog, we will discuss the latest web development trends that will evolve in 2022. And so, it optimizes the page loading speed and reduces the bounce rate. List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022. Image Source.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. I wrote a blog in 2016 that discussed the need for businesses to flip the traditional monitoring investment pyramid on its head.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

The speed of mobile networks, too, varies considerably between countries. Perhaps surprisingly, users experience faster speeds over a mobile network than WiFi in at least 30 countries worldwide, including Australia and France. South Korea has the fastest mobile download speed , averaging 52.4 per GB respectively. Mbps upload.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2019

An API is the communication channel for an application to load data from the server. This relationship can be expressed through an associative array (an array of key => property) on the server-side, in which each module states its name as the key attribute and its inner modules under the property modules. Large preview ).

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In my previous blog posts, I highlighted the importance of using Event Sequence as the sort key. How It Works: XEvent Output and Visualization SQL Server Management Studio Provides–“XE Profiler” Use the SSMS XEvent Profiler. CREATE EVENT SESSION [EventSequence] ON SERVER ADD EVENT sqlserver. The XEProfiler Sample.

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