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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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 2, 2022

I have a handful of good links to articles about performance that are burning a hole in my bookmarks folder, and wanna drop them here to share. Performance: Making a Fast Framework Even Faster — Ben Schwarz says that Next.js But performance isn’t something that can be left entirely to a framework. How do we do it?

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Performance Cache Best Practices Strategy 68

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I began writing this article in early July 2023 but began to feel a little underwhelmed by it and so left it unfinished. When serving and storing files on the web, there are a number of different things we need to take into consideration in order to balance ergonomics, performance, and effectiveness. in this article.

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Cache Latency Strategy Speed 291

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows , like getBoundingClientRect. Try it on your machine, try it on my machine, see what the server is doing, etc.

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Performance Website Cache Internet 78

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. Redis Server: 5.07, x86/64. MongoDB server: 4.4.2, BangDB server: 2.0.0, Yugabyte performs really good in this test. About YCSB.

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Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

CSS Wizardry

MAY 31, 2019

A classic example is jQuery, that we might link to like so: There are a number of perceived benefits to doing this, but my aim later in this article is to either debunk these claims, or show how other costs vastly outweigh them. Users might already have the file cached. Penalty: Caching. It’s convenient.

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Cache Latency Infrastructure Website 274

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 28, 2022

In my last article , we went over how to set up a web app that serves chunks and bundles of CSS and JavaScript from CloudFront. While CloudFront’s edge caching does offer benefits, serving your app’s resources from these multiple locations is not without a cost of its own. onto our underlying web server. Setting up our DNS.

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Cache AWS Servers Traffic 79

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. This is not a post explaining why web performance is important.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

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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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Learn how to properly design RESTful APIs communication with clients, accounting for request structure, authentication, and caching. This series of articles shows you how to derive an easy-to-use, robust, efficient API to serve users on the web or on mobile devices. We are using the principles of RESTful architecture over HTTP.

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Servers Cache Mobile Architecture 83

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. This article will cover many areas that database administrators need to be aware of in order to properly license, recover, and tune a Reporting Services installation.

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Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona Community

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Overview In this article, I look at how poorly designed sharding systems and replication systems in PostgreSQL affect query performance in high volume situations, and how to ensure data consistency across many servers. I also cover how insufficient memory could affect PostgreSQL performance.

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Performance Cache Traffic Database 52

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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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

When software runs in a monolithic stack on on-site servers, observability is manageable enough. Traditionally, organizations have relied solely on logging to monitor how applications perform, and that – generally – works fine in many cases.

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Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache 179

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website. How to measure performance The Website Speed Test is the ideal tool for measuring the performance of your website.

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Processing Cache Website Servers 127

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing. Blocking VPNs.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Optimizing Performance With Resource Hints. Modern web browsers use all sorts of techniques to help improve page load performance by guessing what the user may be likely to do next. The browser caches the results of these lookups, but they can be slow. Drew McLellan.

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Performance Games Servers Cache 106

SQL Performance

MARCH 29, 2022

Simple parameterization has a number of quirks in this area, which can result in more parameterized plans being cached than expected, or finding different results compared with the unparameterized version. When SQL Server applies simple parameterization to an ad-hoc statement, it makes a guess about the data type of the replacement parameter.

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Cache Servers Database Testing 90

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I was asked to validate the SQL Server behavior in light of the error condition involving fsync/fdatasync outlined in this article. This means data can be stored in file system cache, non-stable media. ) The issue, as described in the link, is that the sync returns the error but may clear the state of the cached pages.

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Servers Media Cache Software Engineering 40

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. Unoptimized content could also be one of the reasons why your WordPress website is not performing as per your expectations. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough.

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing. Blocking VPNs.

Website 97

Website Internet Internet Performance 97

CSS - Tricks

MAY 24, 2021

Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant — Tobias Ahlin describes how the scrolling effects are done more performantly thanks to IntersectionObserver and the fact that it avoids the use of methods that trigger reflows , like getBoundingClientRect. Try it on your machine, try it on my machine, see what the server is doing, etc.

Performance 40

Performance Website Cache Internet 40

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will go through how to optimize and build a high-performance Next.js We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. For this article, we will be focusing on how Nx works with Next.js

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Cache Servers Code Storage 110

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Without build optimizations (incremental builds, caching, we will get to those soon) this will eventually become unmanageable as well — think about going through all images in a website: resizing, deleting, and/or creating new files over and over again. Under the hood, it simplifies a lot of the work to the server-side.

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Cache Website Strategy Traffic 130

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. Performance is a topic that has interested me for a long time. Moving over to web, the performance problems are different. These days we have more and better tools to audit our performance.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

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.

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Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 58

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2021

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing. Blocking VPNs.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In this article, we will discuss a few of those techniques as well as some of the things I wish I had known earlier to help manage large Next.js Note : While this article is specific to Next.js, some of the points will also work for a wide variety of front-end applications. applications. Use React Query Or SWR For Fetching Async Data.

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Cache Code Testing Design 143

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI. ecosystem was chosen for this new service deserves an article in and of itself. video titles, descriptions) could be aggressively cached and reused across multiple requests.

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Latency Cache Java Traffic 233

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following the series of blogs written with the intention to describe basic operations matching Docker and open source databases, in this article, I will demonstrate how to proceed with installing MongoDB with Docker. I wrote this article based on the Docker-maintained repository. Docker quickly deploys standalone MongoDB containers.

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Scalability Best Practices Servers Database 61

Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 27, 2021

Any website request initially goes to the DNS server to fetch the IP address of the website and accesses it on the responded address. If the DNS caches are manipulated to contain wrong IP addresses, it’s called DNS poisoning. In Conclusion: Monitoring Website Performance from China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing. Blocking VPNs.

Website 52

Website Internet Internet Performance 52

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. This article lays out the ideas and discussions shared at the workshop. Figure 1: Heterogeneous memory with CXL (source: Maruf et al.,

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Offering 20 chapters with insights into Page Content, User Experience, Content Publishing, and Content Distribution, it can also be overwhelming, so we’ll be summarizing the web performance section in an easy-to-understand manner. We’ll be diving into Chapter 7 – Performance. It can also be described as server delay.

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Performance Speed Website Mobile 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Generally speaking, we can also run the top command on any server to which we have shell access.

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

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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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

SQL Performance

MAY 16, 2019

Achieving minimal logging using INSERT.SELECT into an empty clustered index target is not quite as simple as described in the Data Performance Loading Guide. For the conditions that apply when the target table is a heap, see the previous article in this series. Introduction. Summary for Clustered Tables. DMLRequestSort Conditions.

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