Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression). Video Playback On The Web: Video Delivery Best Practices (Part 2). Now, some of these numbers are slightly scare as they are slightly large.

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Best practices for container security. Dynatrace news. Pretty neat, isn’t it?

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. #include <sys/time.h>

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

For instance, if I’m reading a paper from 2019, a popular song from that year could start playing. Perhaps future AI tool developers could use Swift Papers as a benchmark to assess how well their tool performs on an example real-real-world programming task. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52