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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

In 2019, Gartner reported that 30% of organizations worldwide were running containerized applications. Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Best practices for container security.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

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. System setup is covered on the PostgreSQL Best Practice post so it will not be repeated here as the steps are the same.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Description: Infant characters as in my paper “ Letter and symbol misrecognition in highly legible typefaces for general, children, dyslexic, visually impaired and aging readers — 2019 fourth edition.”. Many previous reading studies investigated the effect of typography on reading speed. Robert Hillier’s Sylexiad Serif Medium.

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How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

HammerDB

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom