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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

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. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

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MySQL Key Performance Indicators (KPI) With PMM

Percona

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. As a best practice, It is advisable to have different mounts for MySQL data and log files with specific system configurations.

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Extensibility in MySQL Is Easy

Percona

You can build within the extracted source tree, but this goes against best practices. Once inside the build directory, execute cmake targeted to the source tree. Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! spolier* It’s better!)

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO.

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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

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. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.