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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. Quantitative performance testing looks at metrics like response time while qualitative testing is concerned with scalability, stability, and interoperability.

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Scaling and Capacity Planning

Percona

But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment. We conducted thorough research to improve scalability and the user experience on our Home Dashboard for 1,000 database services.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In reality, only highly scalable RUM solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools must sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities.

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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

Scalability As your data volume and user base expand, a finely tuned database can seamlessly accommodate increased workloads without compromising performance. This scalability ensures that your applications can grow in tandem with your business or user demands, maintaining a high level of operational efficiency.

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Extensibility in MySQL Is Easy

Percona

You can build within the extracted source tree, but this goes against best practices. Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! Now that we have the code tree extracted and our plugin code ready, we need to create a build location. Once inside the build directory, execute cmake targeted to the source tree.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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