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

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

There is also a wide network of Oracle partners available to help you negotiate a discount , typically ranging from 15%-30%, though larger discounts of up to 40%-60% are available for larger accounts. 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

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. 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. What's changed since last year? and 75KiB of JavaScript.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Delayed five years.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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

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

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Large preview ). Large preview ). Choose the right metrics.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. As events are immutable we were caching them in Memcache for 12 hours but even them downloading the same events so many times from Memcache was causing network issues.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52