Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. India became a 4G-centric market sometime in 2018. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The Moto G4 , for example. 5G looks set to continue a bumpy rollout for the next half-decade.

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Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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. They use “do what it takes” language to describe the efforts to get and stay fast.

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Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Globally in 2018–2019, according to the IDC, 87% of all shipped mobile phones are Android devices. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.

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