ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

These, let’s call them metal languages , include FORTRAN (introduced in 1957), C (1972), and C++ (1985). Programmers continue to write applications in them, and they continue to evolve: the just approved C++20 standard is the latest example. Despite their age, these languages are far from dead! As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. Also microbenchmarks, which often stress-test the system, will suffer the largest losses.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You can adjust what browser is used, the kind of network connection to employ, the locations to test from, whether or not the browser’s cache is empty or full, how frequently to take the measurements, and more. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

Website 131

Website Design Network Best Practices 131

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. And while you can usually cache the full page of an article, the same is not true of many shop pages and elements.

Performance 116

Performance Cache Website Mobile 116

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Build Optimizations JavaScript modules, module/nomodule pattern, tree-shaking, code-splitting, scope-hoisting, Webpack, differential serving, web worker, WebAssembly, JavaScript bundles, React, SPA, partial hydration, import on interaction, 3rd-parties, cache. This improves page load time and caching during navigations.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Edge caching. Nginx for disk based caching. Java used to power core file system code. Introduction.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52