Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

There are many typefaces, and many of them are very similar or are nearly identical to previous or contemporary versions available. We want to allow accessibility via OpenType or stylistic options with the typeface, so they are available to use if needed. These points could be extended to language support as well.

Performance 112

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 112

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components. 2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. These powerful brands drive much excitement and, of course, dollars.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Verifying benchmark claims. I picked these examples because they aren't operations that show up in standard data warehousing benchmarks, yet are meaningful parts of customer workloads. Verifying benchmark claims. I've noticed a troubling trend in vendor benchmarking claims over the past year.

Cloud 135

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

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

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. A cold start occurs when there’s no instance of the requested Lambda function available. How Dynatrace compares to other solutions.

Lambda 212

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 212

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use? What is Amazon RDS?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. So, load it once, enjoy it many times.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. the term "smartphone dependence" has been coined to describe folks without other ways to access the increasing fraction of essential services only available through the internet. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S.,

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave . HammerDB difference from Sysbench. c_ytd_payment: 10.00 7 rows in set (0.00

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands The xml is well-formed, applying configuration hammerdb>librarycheck Checking database library for Oracle Success.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully. Global Ground-Truth. 400Kbps transfer.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. 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. Not available. Not available. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. The global conversion rate for Q3 of 2018 was 2.42% down from 2.78% in Q2.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). compared to early 2015. How often is it the case?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized, key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Other options are available , too.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145