Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

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Nick Desaulniers

JUNE 2, 2018

ccache , the compiler cache, is a fantastic way to speed up build times for C and C++ code that I previously recommended. Recently, I was playing around with trying to get it to speed up my Linux kernel builds, but wasn’t seeing any benefit. Sat Mar 17 03:04:59 UTC 2018. cat /proc/version Linux version 4.15.0-13-generic

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Speed Cache C++ Systems 46

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. To achieve this, organizations are utilizing distributed messaging system such as Apache Kafka.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. Based on our findings, SQL still holds 60% with rising demand for systems such as PostgreSQL: SQL Database Use: 60.48%. SQL vs. NoSQL. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. Most Popular Databases.

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Database Metrics Systems Strategy 255

Dynatrace

JULY 30, 2021

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. For easy access to all configuration files relevant for Dynatrace Cloud Automation, we start by setting an upstream git to our own GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or any other git compliant version control system.

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Cloud DevOps Azure Virtualization 214

High Scalability

AUGUST 16, 2023

If you’re unfamiliar with this story, Swedbank had a major outage in April 2022 that was caused by an unapproved change to their IT systems. Are the systems themselves secure? This week I’ve been reading through the recent judgment from the Swedish FSA on the Swedbank outage. ” But is the bank safe though?

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Monitoring Processing Systems DevOps 100

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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. I learned firsthand how to bring beginners from different backgrounds up to speed.

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Systems Performance Education Technology 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The specification of AV1 was published in 2018. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes. Besides speeding up the encoder, the total CPU hours could also be reduced if we can use compute resources more efficiently.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some of the largest enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy are using AWS to build innovations and power their businesses, drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market. ENEL is one of the leading energy operators in the world. On that day, they had over 80 million pageviews and 18.8 million unique visits.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018. I mean, why wouldn't we? desc="Time to process request at origin" NOTE: This is not a new API.

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Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

For example, PDC’s Beskow system has 11 cabinets, 515 blades, 2,060 compute nodes, and a total of 67,456 cores. This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). Exponential growth of supercomputing power.

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Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

2018-10-26T13:45:46+02:00. WordPress core developers used a system of hooks which allowed other developers to modify or extend certain functionalities. In addition to MVC separation, we can (for security reasons or speed improvements) place the JS App on a separate server like in the schema below: Decoupled WordPress diagram.

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Cache Website Speed Database 78

Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. The admiral would no doubt admire what Jason Cox, Director of Platform & Systems Reliability, is doing at Disney.

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DevOps Metrics Healthcare Innovation 91

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Ideally, shoot for 30% speed improvements. A screenshot of Lighthouse 3.0,

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Plus another AWS GovCloud (US) Region in the United States is coming online by the end of 2018. I'm also excited to announce today that we are launching an AWS Edge Network Location in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first quarter of 2018. The BIPA has moved their Learning Management System to AWS, reducing costs by over 90%.

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Cloud Education Energy Government 152

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In January 2018, customers will be able to connect via Equinix Paris in January and later in the year via Interxion Paris. These teams are helping customers and partners of all sizes, including systems integrators and ISVs, to move to the cloud. The opening of the AWS EU (Paris) Region adds to our continued investment in France.

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 112

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As with the previous guides as an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a MySQL 8 on Linux on Intel system and the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different. Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Having an effective test automation system is an absolute necessity in today’s agile software development environments. 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! Book a Demo. Picking the Right Automation Tool.

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Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. With the goals of sharing, openness and mentoring, you’re in for some great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins. Tune in each day for an article that explores the wide range of topics in system administration.

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Design Development Programming Website 108

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

My fear is that all too often it’s like jumping on a motorbike and tearing off at great speed (rapid initial progress), only to ride around a bend and find a brick wall across the road in front of you. It’s going to pick up speed. That doesn’t normally end well. I’ve seen enough generations of CASE (remember that acronym?)

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Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

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. The case for an efficient e-health service has reiterated the need to be able to build and support the necessary systems without delay. Whereas before in the U.S.

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Healthcare Automotive Logistics Metrics 64

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. 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.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. 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.

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Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

Note that “no side effects on normal execution” is always automatically true for violation handlers even when an assertion system such as proposed in [4] allows arbitrary custom violation handlers to be installed, because those are executed only if we discover that we’re in a corrupted state and so are already outside of normal execution. [5]

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. This can be a problem in a lot of content management systems such as WordPress or Magento, because theme developers tend to scale images down in responsive themes using CSS.

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Social Media Media Google Website 106

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2018, we launched the first Pop-Up Loft in Stockholm, offering a co-working space and access to technology and business experts to support the growth of Nordic organizations. We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Similarly, the SPA orthodoxy that precipitated the market for frontend lemons has been challenged both by the continued success of "legacy" tools like Wordpress, as well as a new crop of HTML-first systems that provide JS-friendly authoring but output that's largely HTML and CSS: Eleventy Astro Enhance SvelteKit Fresh.and many others.

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Social Media Website Technology Technology 119

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Serverless, and related announcements, at re:Invent 2018 The fountains at the Bellagio?—?still artifacts that can be merged into your function’s file system before the function is executed. One of my favorite developments of 2018 in the AWS team has been the growth of their “Serverless Applications” efforts?—?what Which is cool!

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Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. Firstly for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for PostgreSQL OLTP performance at the time of writing. dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/ssd xfs noatime.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40

Testsigma

DECEMBER 8, 2019

DevOps has been around for about a decade now and has become a crucial automation process that enables organizations to deploy changes to a system in production quickly and efficiently. DevTestOps aims to ensure that the changes in the system will be deployed on production not only without delays but also without any compromise on quality.

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IoT Software Software Artificial Intelligence 78

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

See the end of the post for an October 2018 bug fix update, or read the whole story: Flaky failures are the worst. I was doing a lot of builds because I was doing build-speed investigations and these crashes were interfering with my ability to do measurements. Update, October 2018.

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Programming Hardware Cache Code 79