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

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) So if they can’t beat ‘em in the DBaaS space, they often feel like they have to join ‘em — to the tune of total stack sharing or some proprietary arrangement. Is MongoDB free to use?

Open Source 86

Open Source Programming Database Servers 86

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda. Dynatrace news.

Lambda 243

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 243

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. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

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

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. Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 108

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 108