Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

According to IBM , application modernization takes existing legacy applications and modernizes their platform infrastructure, internal architecture, or features. These insights help organizations plan for cloud scalability, performance improvements, and business alignment. Vastly improved performance. Cost optimization.

Strategy 232

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 232

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 petaflops, which is 0.8% of peak capacity.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our previous posts in this series, we spoke at length about using PgBouncer and Pgpool-II , the connection pool architecture and pros and cons of leveraging one for your PostgreSQL deployment. Performance Testing. Since PgBouncer is a very light-weight process, installing it on the box has no impact on overall performance.

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Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

At Netflix, such workflows are performed hundreds of times a day by many teams around the world, so investing in algorithmically-assisted tooling around content understanding can reap outsized rewards. A primary driver of variation in performance is late vs. early fusion. Figure 1: a scene consists of a sequence of shots.

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Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

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Software Software Analytics Big Data 193

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Managed DBaaS solutions like ScaleGrid.io

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 103

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In contrast to clean labels, which indicate precise start and end times for each speech/music region, noisy labels only provide approximate timing, which may impact SMAD classification performance. To evaluate and benchmark our dataset, we manually labeled 20 audio tracks from various TV shows which do not overlap with our training data.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Spiraling cloud architecture and application costs have driven the need for new approaches to cloud spend. FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. FinOps company culture.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 201

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This includes all architectures, all compilers, all operating systems, and all system configurations.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. InS does now offer an NVMe variant too, and the authors perform limited testing on that as well. VLDB’19.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 119

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Large preview ).

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Many organizations perform release validation tests manually, usually to accommodate an organizational structure that requires a manager’s approval. Often, organizations will have dedicated resources within Quality Assurance to perform these tasks. Automating release validation. Want to learn more?

DevOps 214

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 214

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

Specifically, we will dive into the architecture that powers search capabilities for studio applications at Netflix. In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. It allowed us to transparently update the algo data without users knowing about it.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. SLOs define the performance margins you need to achieve, such as five-nines uptime.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core. buffer copies for filesystem access) with a single thread.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. Performance is mission-critical to these organizations. Why is this important and why do you need it?

Infrastructure 206

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 206

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. The current state-of-the-art Python compiler, pypy , often yields around a 2x improvement in performance (and sometimes less).

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing. Find that sweet spot where the costs and performance balance out just right.

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Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. That central chip ties together the 7nm CPU chiplets, creating a massively scalable architecture. This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen.

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I believe that all optimizing C/C++ compilers know how to pull this trick and it is generally beneficial irrespective of the processor’s architecture. We also published our benchmarks for research purposes. I make my benchmarking code available. The idea is not novel and goes back to at least 1973 (Jacobsohn).

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

With MongoDB, you can set read-only privileges in which users can query data but cannot perform write operations. This helps prevent the possibility of a single point of failure, which could cause downtime or slow performance. This architecture spans data centers to add more layers of availability to the database cluster.

Availability 106

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

This guide to HammerDB concepts and architectures is aimed at helping you understand how HammerDB is built and how it can be extended and modified. It should now be clear that HammerDB is a simple and modular application yet extremely powerful and high performance because of the multi-threaded architecture and design.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 on CentOS 7, both of them spec’d with four vCPUs but with the second one (server B) having a tad over twice as much memory than the reference one (server A).

Tuning 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Stateful JavaScript Apps.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Stateful JavaScript Apps.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100