article thumbnail

How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost

Scalegrid

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

AWS 183
article thumbnail

What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

Tuning 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there is one question regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily : When should I use Aurora and when RDS MySQL ? About ZFS Performance. ZFS has many very interesting features, but I am a bit tired of hearing negative statements on ZFS performance.

article thumbnail

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL Tables

High Scalability

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well.

article thumbnail

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. AWS for builds. We did this as AWS was cost-prohibitive. How do you check global availability and simulate end-user performance? How do you test your system?

article thumbnail

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. JavaScript stresses single-core performance (remember, it’s inherently more single-threaded than the rest of the Web Platform) and is CPU bound. Test with network throttling, and emulate a high-DPI device.