Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Performance budgets are set early in the life of the project. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Apica’s scale is enterprise-grade.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

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.)

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [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.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 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.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. optimised container networking and security. overall performance comparable to bare metal. The good news is all of these challenges including performance can be tackled and in several cases, there are new developments to overcome them.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

JavaScript benchmark. DrQz : Somewhat more revealing USL curves that go BEYOND the performance measurements (also corrects previous legend): • XDP-1 saturates single NIC at ~4 cores • DPDK scales "infinitely" but reaches NIC satn at ~13 cores • XDP-2 peaks before satn at ~15 cores due to non-zero β term.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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