The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Furthermore, as hardware and compiler optimisations rapidly evolve, it is challenging even for a knowledgeable developer to keep up. The study is conducted using a suite of 7 real-world popular scientific applications, and two well-established benchmark suites: Miniaero solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. The applications.

Benchmarking 101

Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

long_query_time: Defines the threshold for query execution time, and queries taking longer than this threshold are considered slow and logged for further analysis innodb_buffer_pool_size: Sets the size of the InnoDB buffer pool. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. This may affect our ability to perform support-case analysis of past events, but your environment will remain stable. Dynatrace news. Advanced customization of OneAgent deployments made easy.

Best Practices 202

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 202

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. BTW, the "i" in the Standard_E64is_v3 naming means that the instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

PostgreSQL offers more light-weight tuning capabilities, like their Query Optimizer, and DBaaS platforms like ScaleGrid offer advanced slow query analysis. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. So Which Is Best?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. is access to hardware devices. This is as it should be. Shape Detection.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Today, either method returns a similar answer.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

HTTP Archive research: Background and caveats Before we get into the analysis, some context: The numbers cited below all come from the HTTP Archive. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. I looked at the top 1M sites and top 1K sites, focusing on median and 90th percentile numbers.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Simulated packet loss and variable latency, however, can make benchmarking extremely difficult and slow. They use “do what it takes” language to describe the efforts to get and stay fast.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e., addl $1, %eax vfmadd213pd %zmm16, %zmm17, %zmm29.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

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. 2] Data on mobile network evolution is sketchy, [3] and the largest error bars in this series' analysis continue to reside in this section.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Nagios, Grafana and New Relic and some internal proactive exception analysis are used. The dedicated Security team runs automated security benchmark tests before every release. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? How do you health check your server and networks? More details on it are in this blog post.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145