Availability Benchmarking Operating System Performance 
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. But is five nines availability attainable? Downtime per year.
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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Scalegrid
JANUARY 25, 2024
Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.
John McCalpin
APRIL 25, 2023
The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This post is about a secondary performance characteristic — sustained memory bandwidth for a single thread running on a single core. buffer copies for filesystem access) with a single thread.
Dynatrace
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
As IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex, organizations face the challenge of aligning business objectives and end-user experience with the availability and performance of the IT infrastructure. Performance is mission-critical to these organizations. Why is this important and why do you need it?
Percona
MAY 1, 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. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?
Dynatrace
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. These products see systems from the “outside” perspective—which is to say, the attacker’s perspective. Harden the host operating system. Why is container security tricky?
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