Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Steve Souders, plus Dion Almaer, Doug Crockford, Ben Galbraith, Tony Gentilcore, Dylan Schiemann, Stoyan Stefanov, Nicole Sullivan, Nicholas C. Information Architecture. In her book, Lara Hogan helps you approach projects with page speed in mind, showing you how to test and benchmark which design choices are most critical.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Hit Ctrl-C to end. and 4.14.12

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Hit Ctrl-C to end. and 4.14.12

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Analyzing read/write workload by counts.

Benchmarking 48

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 48

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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. SELECT DISTINCT c from sbtest where id between ? order by c. SELECT c from sbtest where id=? HammerDB difference from Sysbench. perf special.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40