Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

Moving this site to Eleventy and Netlify has been a great way to improve the performance of the deployed end-product, which was reason enough to make the switch. Investigating this turned into a fun little project that has helped me learn loads about 11ty and has reacquainted me Node's performance tools. [1]. So can we go faster?

Cache 49

Cache Hardware Speed Cloud 49

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. Performance is competitive at around 15ms. This code is provided for interest and is not included in the performance summary table. BountyAmount ; Performance Summary Table. Performance Summary Table (duration / CPU in milliseconds).

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Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

Instead of focusing on hardware and infrastructure first, technical teams should first ensure that they first have visibility on the thing that drives the business: their customer experience. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. Need for Alignment Between IT and Business KPIs.

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Monitoring Retail Ecommerce Infrastructure 40

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. We believed existing hardware and OS protocols protected the processor.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Val and Dylan performing power outage durability testing and adding new tests.

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Servers Media Cache Storage 90

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. 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.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Titus is a multi-tenant system, allowing multiple teams and users to run workloads on the system, and ensuring they can all co-exist while still providing guarantees about security and performance. Various pieces of software used elevated capabilities for FUSE, low-level packet monitoring, and performance tracing amongst other use cases.

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Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” Description.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

One question I’ve seen posed a few times in the past several months is whether performance really is a moral or ethical concern, or if that’s all heavy-handed exaggeration. When you stop to consider all the implications of poor performance, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that poor performance is an ethical issue.

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Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

"Waitstats helps us identify performance-related counters. But waits information by itself isn't enough to accurately diagnose performance problems. The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.".

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Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

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. Web Performance APIs.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

From outright misstatements about a competitor's security, to claims that performance differences in hardware show Safari is faster, to [geographic brinksmanship](/2022/02/minimum-standards/), the confident bluster hasn't gone down particularly well. But needs must. The proposal looked shockingly like those sketched in years past.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Perform routine maintenance and backups to ensure data integrity. Remember that semi-synchronous replication impacts performance because it needs to wait for the round trip of the actual ACK from the replica. and was GA’ed in MySQL 5.7.17.

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Servers Database Availability Traffic 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. — Alex Russell (@slightlylate) October 4, 2017. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Performance budgets keep everyone on the same. Maybe "ambush by JS"?

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance.

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Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

It enables businesses and organizations to meet uptime and service level objectives, protect business-critical data, and maintain performant databases. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. A poorly chosen shard key can lead to performance issues.

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. In this article, we will look at how this can improve the reporting/analytical query performance in MySQL. sec) mysql> explain select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'G 1.

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware). TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. 64 equals 104.95

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

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. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. of the peak performance of (68 cores * 32 FP ops/cycle/core * 1.495 GHz =) 3253 GFLOPS ( note1 ).

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

STELLA: report from the SNAFU-catchers workshop on coping with complexity , Woods 2017, Coping with Complexity workshop. Today’s choice is a report from a 2017 workshop convened with that title, and recommended to me by John Allspaw – thank you John! How do participants do that?

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C++ Systems Software Software 50

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). His example of using a slower swap disk makes sense: by degrading the system's performance, the demand on the system (measured as running + queued) should increase. you are running at saturation, which may cause performance problems.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

As Tyler Akiadu, from Google, explained in his Strata NY 2017 presentation, “ Foundations of streaming SQL ”: “Streams are the in-motion form of data, both bounded and unbounded.” But when we run on a cluster of machines, how can we perform the resource management required by this new generation of distributed data-intensive applications?

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. How We Improved SmashingMag Performance. Every web performance story is similar, isn’t it? A day when a project, fully polished and carefully optimized, gets launched, ranking high and soaring above performance scores in Lighthouse and WebPageTest. Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

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. There are a wide range of tools and extensions for every conceivable scenario, like performance profiling, auditing, etc. Oracle Ease of Use.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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