Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Tasktop

JULY 19, 2021

We’ve known for many years the high levels of waste in software work; a 2018 Pendo report found that 80% of features are rarely or never used (equating to $29.5 This report serves as the benchmark for those working in VSM and aiming to keep pace with competitors. Only 53% of respondents said they do measure business results.

Software 52

Software Software DevOps Benchmarking 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. These changes will have a big impact in 2018 and I anticipate Kubernetes will become defacto scheduler for big data workloads by effectively replacing YARN and Mesos. Kubernetes has a massive community support and momentum behind it. Performance.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Here are some examples: Neue Haas Grotesk (1956), Helvetica (1957), Arial (1982), Bau (2002), Akkurat (2004), Aktiv Grotesk (2010), Acumin (2015), Real (2015); Frutiger (1976), Myriad (1992), Monotype SST (2017), Squad (2018), Silta (2018); Collis (1993), Novel (2008), Elena (2010), Permian (2011), Lava (2013).

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

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

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

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

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . 2018-11-02T15:38:27.662098+00:00 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1402 (LGWR switch) Current log# 1 seq# 1402 mem# 0: /home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/VULCDB1/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_fjj87ghr_.log Checkpoint not complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In 2018, he joined Google’s DevRel team to work on Chrome, web standards, and, in his own words, “ fixing this web performance thing once and for all! Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!,

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

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. When we set out to create the new Lambda extension, we benchmarked other dedicated Lambda monitoring solutions that were already on the market.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 227

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. April 2018 , but not usable until several releases later). Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. In more detail: ## 1. Syscall rate This is the cost of extra CPU cycles in the syscall path. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

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. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. On the flip side, Firefox made their webpages load 2.2

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. As of Aug 2018, Aurora provides another option that does not require provisioned capacity. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

JavaScript benchmark. They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". It's the fastest device I've ever tested.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. In more detail: ## 1. Syscall rate This is the cost of extra CPU cycles in the syscall path. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. HammerDB CLI v3.1 loaded library Oratcl for Oracle Checking database library for MSSQLServer Success. HammerDB CLI v3.1

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Since 2010, volumes have been on a slow downward glide path , shrinking from ~350MM per year in a decade ago to ~260MM in 2018. So what did $650, give or take, buy in late 2017 or early 2018? Market Factors # The forces that shape the PC population have been largely fixed for many years. but which blessedly sports 8GB of RAM.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow. Their powers combined are going to fundamentally transform the optimal page-load for 2018 and beyond.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

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. If there's a bright spot in our construction of a 2021 baseline for performance, this is it. A 2021 Global Baseline.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

I wrote a number of blog posts about this back in January 2018, including these: Checking Your SQL Server Instance for Spectre/Meltdown Patches. We won't know the actual single-threaded performance of these processors until they have been released and benchmarked by neutral third-party testers.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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

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

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%

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1. AV1 has compression similar to the H.265

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2018, the Alliance of Open Media has released a new promising video format called AV1. In real-world scenarios, most products aren’t even close: a median bundle size today is around 452KB , which is up 53.6% compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145