Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. ” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. APM solutions: A primer. How to evaluate APM solutions.

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

the IBD file is “self-describing”; for example, the table schema is available within an IBD file. ibd in the test directory. For example, mysql datadir/test/t1.ibd. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): New design (from Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28)

Cache 89

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 89

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

And, precisely due to this diversity, the need for testing on many devices is paramount. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. With the ever-increasing and evolving sector of Android users, Android device testing is of the essence. .

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0 Capacity planning and setup details We used a dedicated 32-core CPU and 64GB of RAM for our testing. 2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).

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Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 102

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn how engineering teams are using products like StackHawk and Snyk to add security bug testing to their CI pipelines.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

Performance 111

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Schema design: Evaluating the database schema design and making adjustments such as partitioning large tables, eliminating redundant data, and denormalizing tables for frequently accessed information can improve performance. effective_cache_size The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. The design space.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Make sure you design the data types correctly while planning for the future growth of the table. Example: Creating four simple tables to store strings but using different data types: db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb1 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text char(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 ibd -rw-r --. ibd -rw-r --.

Open Source 91

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In production environments, it is observed that a large value for shared_buffer gives really good performance, though you should always benchmark to find the right balance. The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching. Plus another recent post on benchmarks: Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc.

Tuning 58

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 58

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. Some companies may insert a design/research spike just before the epic kicks off but it always feels reactionary and ends up being a hack shortcut. Assemble A Crew.

Design 93

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 93

Speed Curve

JUNE 24, 2019

Build a performance culture that embraces collaboration between design and dev. 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.). Read: Performance testing in CI: Let's break the build! Connect the dots.

Performance 77

Performance Best Practices Metrics Mobile 77

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. This is vividly reflected in the design on the Titan supercomputer , which is still among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers (as of the November 2018 Top500 list). You may have heard of the Top500 list.

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it. How does high availability work?

Availability 111

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2019

My definition of a performance budget has evolved over the years, but here’s my current working draft: A performance budget is a clearly defined limit on one or more performance metrics that the team agrees not to exceed, and that is used to guide design and development. You can test against WebPageTest automatically using its API.

Performance 64

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Design 64

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables. We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 100

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. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have. This blog article will examine shared attributes of high availability (HA) and fault tolerance (FT). What does high availability mean?

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Run source code tests.

Open Source 249

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 249

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. However, although these results are the gold standard of database benchmarking to do so, requires time, expertise and not insignificant cost.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. As a beginner in software testing, you would make your own mistakes and learn from them to shape your career path. Following are a few common mistakes often made by software testing beginners when they start their journey in the world of testing.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

This means that when a query is executed, pgpool-II can check the cache first to see if the results are already available rather than sending the query to the database server. Two benchmarks from users can be found here: [1] [2] 4. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

Cache 117

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 117

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." For Fedora, one person requested: "Meta and/or Netflix should provide infrastructure for a side repository in which the change can be tested and benchmarked and the code size measured."

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience. Dawn Chenette , Design Lead This approach had several benefits for product engineering. At the same time, we kept the design open enough to allow future extensibility.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What is Regression Testing? Regression testing is the process of verifying that if a change is made in one component of the product, the other components of the product continue to behave like it was before. Any change that can impact the behaviour of the product calls for regression testing. Need for Regression Testing.

Testing 53

Testing Infrastructure Code Benchmarking 53

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. Lower is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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