Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. 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.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. 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.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

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. Time required to read bytes from disk (it’s not zero, even on flash-based storage!).

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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