HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

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 is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

With that in mind, I decided to mine some historical data (and run a few new experiments) to see how single-thread/single-core memory bandwidth has evolved over the last 10-15 years. Multicore processors have huge amounts of available DRAM bandwidth – maybe it does not even make sense for a single core to try to use that much?

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. Slave-2 uses an EBS data disk, and you can configure the amount of IOPS required for your cluster.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

This is shared between all clients, so a pooled connection is available to all clients. High availability. PostgreSQL high availability is supported through Pgpool-II in-built watcher processes. Not supported – PgBouncer recommends use of HAProxy for high availability and load balancing. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. It becomes more manageable and efficient by isolating logs and data to a dedicated mount. Who can benefit from DLV? Are DLVs effective for your RDS instance?

AWS 103

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 103

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1 latency is the number one reason consumers abandon mobile sites.

Benchmarking 182

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 182

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 .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

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., It’s a pretty impressive effort to pull together and make available in open source (not yet available as I write this) such a suite, and I’m sure explains much of the long list of 24 authors on this paper.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM collects data on each user action within a session, including the time required to complete the action, so IT pros can identify patterns and where to make improvements in experience.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. When you dive into a multi-cloud strategy, you sign up for complex management challenges.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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 MySQL comes pre-configured to be conservative instead of making the most of the resources available in the server. MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 138

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

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%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This data is from the 2007 presentation. To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. better cluster resource utilization.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Typically a good value is 70%-80% of available memory.

Performance 129

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 129

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. They needed a table store to power core control plane services, which meant strong guarantees on durability, consistency, and availability.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In this case, we have a quite well-defined scenario that can resemble the image below: In this scenario, the proxies must sit inside Pods, balancing the incoming traffic from the Service LoadBalancer connecting with the active data nodes. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated.

Games 125

Games Latency Traffic Cache 125

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Reduced WAL segment size has further gains in replication and backup because less data need to be transmitted. Individual processes generate WAL records, and latency is very crucial for transactions. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz). What is Full Page Writes?

Database 120

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 120

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced. Device Performance # Extending the SoC performance by price point series with another year's data, the picture remains ugly.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Particular Software

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Backed by Cosmos DB, a fully managed, globally distributed, elastically scaled, pay-as-you-go service, your NServiceBus-based systems can benefit from guaranteed single-digit-millisecond latency with 99.999% availability. CosmosClient(new CosmosClient("ConnectionString")).DefaultContainer(

Azure 52

Azure Storage Benchmarking Latency 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput. This tracing system is similar to Dapper and Zipkin and records per-microservice latencies and number of outstanding requests. ASPLOS’19. Seer in action.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

A good practice is to: Look at your last 2-4 weeks of data for a given metric Identify the worst number Set your performance budget for that number In the example above, you can see a time series chart that shows Largest Contentful Paint times over a one-month period. > Let's get started! Background: How performance budgets work 1.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98

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.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

There’s a broad set of choices including where you store the data, whether you run your own DBMS nodes or use a service, the kinds of instance types to go for if you do run your own, and so forth. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. It efficiently manages read and write operations, optimizes data access, and minimizes contention, resulting in high throughput and low latency to ensure that applications perform at their best.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency. Photo by von Vix.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This reduction in latency ensures that applications and websites provide a more rapid and responsive user experience. This can significantly elevate user satisfaction and engagement.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 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. As 128GB DDR4 DIMMs become more widely available that total capacity will double. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. The measured traffic is not of your actual users; it is synthetically generated to collect data on page performance.

Monitoring 40

Monitoring Benchmarking Website Traffic 40