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Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes

Percona

Thus, using Dedicated Log Volumes (DLVs), though new in AWS RDS, has been one of the recommended best practices and is a welcome setup improvement for your RDS instance. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion. Failure detection : Monitoring mechanisms detect failures or issues that could lead to failures.

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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. That said, it should also be monitored for usage, which will exhibit the traffic pressuring them. This is not an exhaustive list but an example of what we can watch for.

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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. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

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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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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

As a discovery tool, request maps are great for identifying the source of third-party, fourth-party, fifth-party, etc., They can also highlight very long redirection chains in your third-party traffic. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

CrUX generates an overview of performance distributions over time, with traffic collected from Google Chrome users. dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019.