Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

While many AWS users default to their managed database solution, Amazon RDS, there are alternatives available that can improve your MySQL performance on AWS through advanced customization options and unlimited EC2 instance type support. Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. sync_binlog.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

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Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

In this blog, we will explore various MySQL KPIs that are basic and essential to track using monitoring tools like PMM. Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. error_log: Specifies the location of the MySQL error log.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 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.

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Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll review how to run Linux profilers such as perf and produce flame graphs on Kubernetes environments. The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. ✔ Launching profiler.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 112

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

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Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Keep reading to learn how you can apply these best practices to your own site and give your pages a speed boost. At SpeedCurve we call these metrics "IX Time" and they're available on your LUX Performance dashboard.) FID is also available on your LUX Performance dashboard.). Speed Index (synthetic only): 4 seconds recommended.

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Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 78

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this blog post, we present two complementary approaches to scene boundary detection in audiovisual content. For the second challenge, we use dynamic time warping (DTW), a method for measuring the similarity between two sequences that may vary in time or speed. However, it presupposes the availability of high-quality screenplays.

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Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

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. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? 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. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 172

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Mutation blacklist : Query CSS selectors to specify mutation nodes (elements that change) to ignore in Visually complete and Speed index calculation. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 132

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Par t of the appeal of Python is that there is a vast array of libraries available for it; when these are written in C, they can go a long way to alleviating Python’s performance problems. I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2 In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

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Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The practice of using budgets to track performance took off with Tim Kadlec's blog post Setting a Performance Budget. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. Speed Index.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. Check out this blog to learn how to avoid disaster! It’s a pretty common question around here, so let’s see what we can do about that.

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CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

In 2015, Google published a blog post announcing Brotli and released its source code on GitHub. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file. and Ruby are not yet available. Brotli’s beginning….

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Speed Curve

JANUARY 31, 2018

Here's how to set up ongoing competitive benchmarking and generate comparison videos. Lara Hogan (previously director of engineering at Etsy) wrote a great blog post demonstrating how Etsy took advantage of the power of showing versus telling. Make things visible (but not overwhelming). Collaborate on performance budgets.

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Performance Metrics Traffic Monitoring 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

There are plenty of automated front-end optimisation tools available like modpagespeed and CloudFlare but being a bit old-school and craft-orientated I prefer the ability to control the load order and optimise not only the individual assets but their sequencing as well. Source: Github Blog. Control and branch the loading of CSS and JS.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make all file operations on Windows run at one tenth their normal speed (or slower), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! Windows has long had a reputation for slow file operations and slow process creation. Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower?

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Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs. However, if we relax the 1:1 power/performance requirement or procure technologies that lower the power overhead, a 2-3X ST performance speed-up over the current generation of CPUs is quite feasible.

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Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Vue vs React: Talent Availability. appeared first on EnProwess Blog.

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Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. 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++ 107

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. You can find more about these in the For The Techies section at our blog. Always be available: Have a service level circuit breaker and a circuit breaker by customer.

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