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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

Brendan Gregg

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. and 4.14.12 Linux 4.14.12-virtual

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . 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. c_ytd_payment: 10.00

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

million Netflix users as of Q3 2018. These virtual users simulate realistic scenarios scripted and recorded with Apica’s ZebraTester tool so that hundreds, thousands, and millions of tests run concurrently in a Streaming companies/studios’ pre-production or production environments before the episodes are actually ‘aired.’

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KPTI/KAISER Meltdown Initial Performance Regressions

Brendan Gregg

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar. and 4.14.12 Linux 4.14.12-virtual

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. Paul Irish. Paul Irish.