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

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

2019 will go down as the year when giants collided over who is streaming the right content to win the growing market demand and dollars. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components. Disney announced they would have a streaming service, while Netflix subscribers reached an all-time high with 137.1

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be?

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 126

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. Similarly, it taught me that “Background scripts are ideal for handling long-term or ongoing tasks, managing state, maintaining databases, and communicating with remote servers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. In 2019 myself and others tested kvm-clock and found it was only about 20% slower than tsc. What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40