CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. In addition, distributed data is a key factor in high availability.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks. Consider using one of the many good secrets management systems that are commercially available. Remove privileges.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

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.

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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.

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Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 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.

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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.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This traditionally manifests more in back-end time, but can have a huge impact on front-end as well when you factor in asset delivery (images, static content) as well as some advanced optimizations available at the edge. Leave out terms like percentile and avoid presenting two sets of numbers. Benchmark yourself. Third parties.

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Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. You can compare up to 12 pages at once and presents the report in a simple and readable way since it uses PageSpeed Insights to generate reports. With Treo Site Speed, you can also benchmark a website against competitors. PageSpeed Compare. Large preview ).

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Distinguishing Traits # Shipped to many OSes Tiny platform teams (<20 people or <10% of the total team) Little benchmark interest or focus No platform feature leadership No standards footprint Platform feature availability lags the underlying engine (e.g., ↩︎ Modern-day Mozilla presents a puzzle within this model.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. To handle N parallel requests, N Lambda instances need to be available, and AWS will spin up up to 1000 such instances automatically to handle 1000 parallel requests. A cold start occurs when there’s no instance of the requested Lambda function available.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 215

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This displays the available CLI commands with “help command” providing detailed information about the command and arguments required. This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. In the CLI the print dict command shows us the available options.

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Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

sec) Conclusion Extending MySQL’s functionality to utilize other libraries presents endless opportunities in expanding the capabilities of MySQL. Since there was a C++ library for ULID, this presented a fantastic opportunity to showcase how MySQL can be extended to have native SQL-based ULID functionality. Or blinking an LED ?

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C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 82

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. I presented a keynote for Sun at Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix Arizona and included the slide shown below.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I was drawn in by the headline results here: This paper presents an analysis of how Linux’s performance has evolved over the past seven years… To our surprise, the study shows that the performance of many core operations has worsened or fluctuated significantly over the years. SOSP’19. Headline results.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) More detailed answers are presented in the article above. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

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

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

MAY 26, 2022

If you are not already familiar with the programming languages that HammerDB uses, then this earlier post serves as an ideal introduction to what makes up the highest performing GIL free database benchmarking application. Therefore, sufficient disk space and permissions must be available for the build to take place. command for Linux.

C++ 113

C++ Database Open Source Servers 113

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. If you know they did, please drop a comment.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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.

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Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a part of the “ Release better software faster ” breakout track at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , I’ll be presenting a session concentrating on deployment models and how to reduce risk and iterate faster. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. From big bang to progressive deployments. Customer story.

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Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 35

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2023

In this blog post, we present two complementary approaches to scene boundary detection in audiovisual content. However, it presupposes the availability of high-quality screenplays. Certain workflows in Netflix capture this information, and that is our primary data source; publicly-released datasets are also available.

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Benchmarking C++ Availability Programming 253

Particular Software

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The legacy transport offered the ability to provide the connection strings for multiple namespaces to enable some measure of high availability. Fast forward to the present, and the Premium Tier of Azure Service Bus now uses Availability Zones to provide high availability transparently to the client using one connection string.

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Transportation Azure Benchmarking Availability 49

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 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Modern network performance and availability. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset. Advances in browser content processing. Content Is Dead, Long Live Content. " package.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

This split decision was available via last year's update , but was somewhat buried. Regardless, I present the thinking behind them because it can provide teams with informed points of departure, and also because clarifying the ritual freakout taking place as INP begins to put a price on JavaScript externalities. In the U.S.,

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember how, later on, a common question I would get in after giving performance-focused presentations was: “Is any of this going to matter when 4G is available?” Once a new network does get rolled out, it takes years for carriers to optimize it to try and close in on the promised bandwidth and latency benchmarks.

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Network Speed Internet Internet 61

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

While this was the case in the past, this won't be an accurate statement for the present WordPress. Several website speed testing tools available could be used for this purpose. In order to get a well-optimized theme, make a list of features you want to be present on your website. Why is WordPress slow?

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Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. clocksource Experimentation My second experiment was to change the clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

The framework does an excellent job at providing a freely available knowledge base that serves as a one-stop shop for modern lean-agile practices and DevOps. It also presents a language to help elevate conversation between teams and with leadership.” . “At They want to know how they’re doing,” said Dean.

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Metrics DevOps Efficiency Benchmarking 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. Running this on the two systems saw similar results. clocksource Experimentation My second experiment was to change the clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The rest of the article presents some views on whether additional single thread performance is feasible, and if so, some methods for extracting that performance in light of potential technology changes. Studies have demonstrated that current generation OOO architectures extract significantly less ILP than is available in the programs.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We can say that choosing a Regression Test Plan is striking the right balance between your available time and resources, guided by your experience with the product quality. Previously executed test cases and/or test plans should be present for Regression Testing so that their results can be used as a benchmark for current behaviour.

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Testing Infrastructure Code Benchmarking 53