Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

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.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Managed Instance provides two tiers for performance. The General Purpose tier is designed for applications with typical performance and I/O latency requirements and provides built-in HA. One size does not always fit all. GB per vCore.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

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. We’re talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this can have a considerable performance impact when cold starts occur too often.

Lambda 224

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 224

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Growth is still strong for such a large topic, but usage slowed in 2018 (+13%) and cooled significantly in 2019, growing by just 7%. But sustained interest in cloud migrations—usage was up almost 10% in 2019, on top of 30% in 2018—gets at another important emerging trend. ML + AI are up, but passions have cooled. Security is surging.

Software Architecture 132

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 132

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. c_ytd_payment: 10.00 7 rows in set (0.00

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. Since BPF does so many things, it is becoming a technology name and no longer an acronym. BPF is in the Linux kernel. ## Why Your Book?

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2020

I’ll then talk about unusual cases where unnesting can be undesirable, resulting in either errors or performance degradation, and demonstrate how to prevent unnesting in those cases by employing an unnesting inhibitor. Example for performance reasons. I’ll continue with a case where unnesting of table expressions can hurt performance.

Servers 110

Servers Code Processing Performance 110

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

O'Reilly

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon had scrapped an AI recruiting tool that had developed a bias against female applicants. If you have any doubts about the virtually inexhaustible power of our biases, please read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. The goal is creating tunable AI,” she says.

Artificial Intelligence 109

Artificial Intelligence Energy Government Virtualization 109

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports Geoff Graham 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00 2023-10-31T17:06:18+00:00 This article is sponsored by DebugBear Running a performance check on your site isn’t too terribly difficult. Can’t be perfect every time!

Speed 97

Speed Google Website Metrics 97

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. TFLOPS deep learning performance, and is equipped with 32GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) capacity.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Randon ASCII

APRIL 21, 2019

Note that, despite breathless and click-baity claims to the contrary , the performance of Chrome and Chromium was never affected by this bug. I often find odd performance issues all on my own, but sometimes they are given to me. Vivaldi had reported “ Unit test performance much worse on Win10 than Win7 ”.

Virtualization 79

Virtualization Testing Processing Code 79

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), where players can trade virtual goods, downtime can even have real-world financial implications for players. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In massively multiplayer online games (MMOs), where players can trade virtual goods, downtime can even have real-world financial implications for players. Local outages might cause traffic to be routed to non-local Points of Presence (PoPs), considerably decreasing performance and usability.

Availability 52

Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. A new set of APIs called Houdini can extend CSS even further to produce interactive, high performance animations with no need for polyfills. Web Components Web component compilers like Stencil make it easy create your own custom elements.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

It encompasses private clouds, the IaaS cloud—also host to virtual private clouds (VPC)—and the PaaS and SaaS clouds. In our analysis of user activity on the O’Reilly learning platform , we found that DevOps-related search and usage declined in both 2018 and 2019. our respondents are more likely to be using SRE than not.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Apart from disconnections, another cause of worry is the inability to access virtual environments which are generally used by the testers for testing applications. There are many elements in mobile devices that are subject to constant change including operating systems, regular updates, performance etc. No setup or ramp-up delays!

Testing 85

Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Performance points of reference: The following charts highlight the increase in performance.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. Logging Waits. Checkpoint not complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2018: MongoDB announces that it is moving from GNU AGPLv3 licensing to the Service Side Public License (SSPL). We are really pleased with our Q1 performance and see it as continued validation of the massive market we are pursuing, our strong product market fit, and our ability to execute.” ” Nothing nefarious there.

Open Source 80

Open Source Programming Database Servers 80

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

So the PAUSE instruction is an optimization over NOP when a thread is waiting to acquire a lock and is particularly important in spin-locks on x86 CPUs for power and performance. ” and “as the PAUSE latency has been increased significantly, workloads that are sensitive to PAUSE latency will suffer some performance loss.”

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

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. As virtual users are started the database specific packages and workload specific modules are loaded into the virtual user threads.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Tasktop

JANUARY 27, 2021

Expanding on the significant role that virtual product development plays in modern automotive manufacturing, René and Mik discussed how value stream management (VSM) has enabled BMW to successfully expand its presence in the Chinese market. A plan for effectively reducing debt must be implemented to preserve existing and future performance).

Code 52

Code Automotive Government Network 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JANUARY 6, 2018

It is particularly suitable for any type of operation that must be performed in steps with certain pacing and may require state checks for health. So, for instance, you are rolling out a new service version on Kubernetes with a large number of instances then you perform an incremental but controlled rollout (canary release).

Open Source 111

Open Source DevOps Storage Engineering 111

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. 6 * 7 * Copyright 2018 Netflix, Inc. the "License") 9 * 10 * 13-Sep-2018 Brendan Gregg Created this.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Containerized data workloads running on Kubernetes offer several advantages over traditional virtual machine/bare metal based data workloads including but not limited to. overall performance comparable to bare metal. Performance.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. OPN402 Firecracker open-source innovation Since Firecracker’s release at re:Invent 2018, several open-source teams have built on it, while AWS has continued investing in Firecracker’s speed.

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Tasktop

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this digital-first climate, software and IT systems can make a significant difference as organizations across most industries become increasingly virtual enterprises. Unsurprisingly the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified digital demands on hospitals and other medical institutions as they adapt to remote patient care.

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Automotive Logistics Metrics 64

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The Need for Containerization Today’s internet users don’t tolerate downtime, so developers have had to find ways to perform maintenance and updates without interrupting their services.

Virtualization 47

Virtualization Open Source Network Architecture 47

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still lightweight virtualization for Serverless Computing”. One of my favorite developments of 2018 in the AWS team has been the growth of their “Serverless Applications” efforts?—?what Closing out And that’s your re:Invent wrap-up for 2018.

Lambda 40

Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40