SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario.

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Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

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.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

have pointed out in their recent Science article (“There’s plenty of room at the Top”) — and cited by Hennessy in his Turing lecture — a naive implementation of matrix-matrix multiply in Python runs between 100x and 60,000x slower than their counterparts written in a “metal” language (highly optimized C).

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. With Treo Site Speed, you can also benchmark a website against competitors. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. Make sure to read our extensive article on DBaaS Pros and Cons ! Our DBaaS solutions provide MongoDB® , Redis® , MySQL , PostgreSQL® , plus many more amenities, all available as part of our comprehensive service provider package.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

In this article, we compare Oracle vs. PostgreSQL, outlining the differences in these SQL database costs, features, and ease of use for both developers and database administrators (DBA’s) alike. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Not available. Not available.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Load balancing and replication: Scaling the database system horizontally by distributing the workload across multiple servers using techniques like connection pooling, read replicas, or implementing a primary-replica replication setup. effective_cache_size The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." Back-end servers. Jonathan Corbet, who writes the best Linux articles, summarized this in " Fedora's tempest in a stack frame " that is so detailed that I feel PTSD when reading it.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. The RDS automated backup and PITR capabilities protect against data loss and system failures, ensuring high availability and performance while simplifying backup management for developers and DBAs.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. Indexing is another powerful technique for query optimization.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose.

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. The code for the site is available on GitHub for reference. I’m going to audit the performance of my slow site before and after the things we tackle in this article. Source: Google /SOASTA Research, 2018.

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Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Percona

JANUARY 11, 2024

In my previous article, Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL, I showed how MySQL Router was the lesser performing Proxy in the comparison. From that time to now, we had several MySQL releases and, of course, also some new MySQL Router ones.Most importantly, we also had MySQL Router going back to being a level 7 proxy […]

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Performance Benchmarking Availability Servers 94

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

In this article we’re going to discuss various methods for improving eCommerce conversion rates. eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. Here are a couple of examples from Etsy’s website: Limited quantities available Product added to customer carts 3.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching. That said, you obviously do not want to reserve all RAM for PostgreSQL.

Tuning 58

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 58

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the work we did and how we were able to achieve our speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these. Large preview ). The checkout is its own beast.

Performance 115

Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The per-core power budget is similarly constrained for servers. Server processors have a power budget around 170W, but they also have more cores per die in order to compete on throughput. Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2019. In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU.

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In this article, I will compare React.js Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. Vue vs React: Talent Availability. Server-Side Rendering. to render pages on the server. and Vue.js

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. features collected articles that concentrate on what makes JavaScript work and what doesn’t. Visit website 3. Visit website 6. Visit website 10.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll walk through the tools and some of the steps you can take to optimize your videos for playback — all of it to avoid stalls and impress your precious customers! We could endlessly tweak the configuration in FFMPEG, but let’s just touch on a few important ones in this article.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. 30.14% in the middle of the flame graph.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Late-loading JavaScript can cause “server-side rendered” pages to fail in infuriating ways. The server sends it as a stream of bytes and when the browser encounters each of the sub-resources referenced in the document, it requests them. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

These services use requests to external hosts (not servers you control) to deliver JavaScript framework libraries, custom fonts, advertising content, marketing analytics trackers, and more. In this article, however, we are going to focus on the third-party services that work their way into the design of your web pages.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. 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. In a world with better balance, most articles would be dedicated to announcements of mid-range devices from LG and Samsung.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

You can see in his example that he suggests a number of optimizations, like limiting which styles and character sets are available for use on the website. After all, Opens Sans is a Google Font that has to be served from Google’s servers. When served from a local server, Open Sans took 0.530 milliseconds to load.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. MS SQL Server/Linux and Windows. If you have not read the article Threads Done Right… With Tcl then now is a good time to do so to understand why HammerDB is so scalable.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40