Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have appeared over the last few years. The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. MyRocks Vs InnoDB.

Storage 56

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 56

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. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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. Without in-person conferences this year, income is down and events are under threat. Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

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 also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 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

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). 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].

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on. 4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. We look forward to seeing you there!

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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. The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. Preferred AMD EPYC Processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

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. 400Kbps transfer.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

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. They may scrub for frames, shots, or scenes of specific characters, locations, objects, events (e.g. This service leverages Cassandra and Elasticsearch for data storage and retrieval.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

The modifications persist even in the event of a system failure. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. For example, many high-end installations contain multiple I/O storage devices.

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

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

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52