HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. Supported Databases.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In both cases, the OS will task the browser team to heavily prioritise integrations with the latest OS and hardware features at the expense of more broadly useful capabilities — e.g. shipping "notch" CSS and "force touch" events while neglecting Push. They certainly have leaders who understand the difference.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. This may affect our ability to perform support-case analysis of past events, but your environment will remain stable. Dynatrace news. Advanced customization of OneAgent deployments made easy.

Best Practices 196

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 196

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 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. Higher is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. 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.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. It will also use less power than a two-socket Intel server, with a lower hardware cost, and potentially lower licensing costs (for things like VMware).

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A recent performance benchmark completed by Intel and BlueData using the BigBench benchmarking kit has shown that the performance ratios for container-based Hadoop workloads on BlueData EPIC are equal to and in some cases, better than bare-metal Hadoop [7]. Kubernetes has all necessary primitives available to make it happen.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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

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. Going forward, I'll produce both as top-line guidance. In the U.S., This nets out to 2.32

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since “peak performance” for the processor is two (512-bit SIMD) FMA instructions per cycle, any instructions that are not FMA instructions subtract directly from the available peak performance. Timers and hardware performance counters are measured immediately outside the loop, where their overhead is negligible.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. For this page to be done loading it needs to be responsive to user input — the “interactive” in “Time to Interactive” Browsers process user input by generating DOM events that application code listens to. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

The modifications persist even in the event of a system failure. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. What does it mean? First Input Delay ( FID ) < 100ms.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. Custom metrics measure a particular, custom event for the user, e.g. Twitter’s Time To First Tweet and Pinterest’s PinnerWaitTime. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

CFS(cloud file system), EOS (Egnyte object store), Content Security, Event Sync, Search Service, User behavior based recommendation service form major parts of the system. We use event-based sync in our desktop sync client code, as server events are happening they get pushed to the client from server and the client replays them locally.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52