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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Even with the broken Java stacks, I noticed a big difference: On Ubuntu, there's a massive amount of CPU time in a libjvm call: os::javaTimeMillis().

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities.

Best Practices 180

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 180

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. With Treo Site Speed, you can also benchmark a website against competitors.

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 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. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. The results – including detailed performance optimization recommendations – are available in your test details. We've added new capabilities for defining page labels with an easy, no-code, server-side (SpeedCurve) option using URL patterns. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Page speed has been a key factor in Google’s ranking algorithm since 2010 , so it is essential to understand the various ways you can optimize your pages and why implementing synthetic monitoring can ensure your pages perform flawlessly and revenue isn’t lost. Remember, speed is key to the user experience. Optimize Your Pages.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Even with the broken Java stacks, I noticed a big difference: On Ubuntu, there's a massive amount of CPU time in a libjvm call: os::javaTimeMillis().

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Supported Databases. Derived Workloads.

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

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

KeyCDN

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A WordPress website comprises many parts, including web servers and their settings, different plugins, and themes. We will also discuss how you can speed up your slow WordPress site. One of the most important factors that affect your speed is the server optimization implemented by your web host. Why is WordPress slow?

Cache 52

Cache Website Speed Website Performance 52

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

There will be a considerable gain if we combine this with other sets of great improvements in WAL archiving in PostgreSQL 15, as discussed in previous posts New WAL Archive Module/Library in PostgreSQL 15 and Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15. They do a much better job than what was available in PostgreSQL (pglz).

Database 115

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 115

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

As the workflow in the CLI and GUI are the same we will show equivalent commands side by side to help you quickly get up to speed on using the CLI in both interactive and scripted scenarios. This displays the available CLI commands with “help command” providing detailed information about the command and arguments required.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. This can significantly elevate user satisfaction and engagement.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. The lower conversion rate on mobile could be due to a variety of reasons including the website not being responsive for mobile devices, the speed isn’t up to par, etc. Improve Site Speed In 2019, having fast site speed is imperative.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A video with large dimensions or a high bitrate will take longer to download and will require a higher speed network to play back smoothly. Bitrate is the playback speed of the video. However, all the other connections have a downlink speed that’s significantly lower than 20 MBPS. There is a solution though! Large preview ).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. I had several tricks that could significantly speed up websites. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. When the word “performance” is heard, most people immediately think of speed. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. KEY partitioning KEY partitioning is similar to HASH partitioning, except that only one or more columns to be evaluated are specified, and the MySQL server provides its own hashing function. Additionally, MySQL 8.0

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy images, or sluggish rendering? Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The per-core power budget is similarly constrained for servers. Server processors have a power budget around 170W, but they also have more cores per die in order to compete on throughput. 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

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. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. It has a vast community that explains online courses, many available tutorials, articles, and three times more questions on Stack overflow. Two primary metrics verify the speed of an app: start-up time and runtime performance. Vue vs React: Talent Availability. Server-Side Rendering.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52