DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a previous article , we explained how we built benchmarks to keep track of those three metrics: precision, recall, and the most important here, speed. These benchmarks taught us a lot about the true internals of our engine at runtime and led to our first improvements.

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CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s worth noting that, by and large, the same page will perform better in iOS Safari than it would on Android Chrome— iPhones are generally far more powerful than their Android counterparts. WebPageTest is easily, by far, without a shadow of a doubt, the single most important tool when it comes to web performance. It’s vital.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. This process includes benchmarking realistic SLO targets based on statistical and probabilistic analysis from Dynatrace.

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DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

However, using the CPU and GPU resources simultaneously can improve the performance of an application. In this article, we will show you how to do CPU+GPU asynchronous calculation using OpenMP. pomriq MRI reconstruction benchmark is written in C and parallelized using OpenMP. The SPEC ACCEL 514.pomriq

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CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

Honestly, I started writing this article, for no real reason and somewhat without context, in December 2022—over half a year ago! This client doesn’t have any RUM or custom monitoring in place ( yet ), so, other than Core Web Vitals, we don’t have much visibility on how the site performs in the wild. performance. performance.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In this article, we will study in detail about the how SQL Server Index Fill factor works. Index Fill factor SQL Server Index Fill Factor is a percentage value to be filled data page with data in SQL Server. This option is available in index properties to manage data storage in the data pages. It […].

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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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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A Using Carbon Impact, we can now implement efficiency measures driven by the app’s benchmarks and recommendations.

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Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 239

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Synthetic performance testing comes in two forms: Scheduled testing Baselining. Benchmarking. Continuous performance testing. Tried-and-true performance monitoring goes by many names. This is a highly sought after arrow in your web performance quiver. What are the two types of tests within SpeedCurve?

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

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Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). For instance, typefaces used for a novel, an academic paper in a journal, or a lengthy online article like this one that uses the Elena typeface, that you are reading now on this webpage. Thomas Bohm.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Labeling your pages in your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools is a crucial step in your performance monitoring setup. Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Create more meaningful performance budgets in RUM. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve.

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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?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks.

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Deployment performs the whole rollout, instrumentation, configuration, connection, and automatic detection of monitored entities in your environment. Dynatrace news.

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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. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right? cost reduction compared to running Cassandra, as they can achieve this performance with only 10% of the nodes. percentile latency is up to 11X better than Cassandra on AWS EC2 bare metal.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Making A Case For Business. Large preview ).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

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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).

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we will explain the multi-cloud challenges and explain how using multiple cloud services can make your business more adaptable, ensure that your operations continue without interruption, and help you control your spending. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

The assumption that engagement is somehow strongly correlated with performance is misplaced. Traditional engagement metrics such as satisfaction, happiness, well-being let alone cannot explain behaviours, actions and motivation of a high-performance team. A high-performing team can be highly engaged but vice verse is not always true.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. shared_buffer.

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Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 55

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.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). HTML – Typically the smallest resource on the page, HTML's performance risk is usually negligible. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. Similar to our article Average Page Load Times for 2018 , we’ll go over the averages for metrics and help you determine if your site is faster or slower than average.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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