Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Key Takeaways Redis offers complex data structures and additional features for versatile data handling, while Memcached excels in simplicity with a fast, multi-threaded architecture for basic caching needs. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

This parameter sets how much dedicated memory will be used by PostgreSQL for cache. If your working set of data can easily fit into your RAM, then you might want to increase the shared_buffer value to contain your entire database, so that the whole working set of data can reside in cache. wal_buffers. effective_cache_size.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. Distributed tracing and instrumentation.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has far-reaching implications how future data systems and algorithms will be designed. Apart from indexes, super efficient sorting and join operations are some major areas come to my mind with immediate benefits of using learned data structure.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. However, although these results are the gold standard of database benchmarking to do so, requires time, expertise and not insignificant cost.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Additionally, they enable the implementation of sophisticated business logic within the database, streamlining repetitive tasks and enhancing overall efficiency. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed. Well-designed indexes can significantly improve query performance within triggers.

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Compressing, minifying and caching assets. We can compress our assets, minify our styles and scripts, and cache things responsibly so we’re serving what the user needs in the most efficient way possible.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In this scenario, it is also crucial to be efficient in resource utilization and scaling with frugality. This is due to the multiplexing and the very efficient way ProxySQL uses to deal with high load.

Games 123

Games Latency Traffic Cache 123

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. CSS Custom Paint.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

For example, the IMDG must be able to efficiently create millions of objects in each server to make use of its huge storage capacity. Given all this, we thought it would be a good opportunity to see how we are doing relative to the competition, and in particular, relative to Microsoft’s AppFabric caching for Windows on-premise servers.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Typically, the servers are configured in a primary/replica configuration, with one server designated as the primary server that handles all incoming requests and the others designated as replica servers that monitor the primary and take over its workload if it fails. This flexibility can be crucial in designing a scalable architecture.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low. Both these techniques use vector data rather than pixels so they are small in file size and scale efficiently across all sizes including high resolution retina screens.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well. Many high-end disk subsystems provide high-speed cache facilities to reduce the latency of read and write operations. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Contended, over-subscribed cells can make “fast” networks brutally slow, transport variance can make TCP much less efficient , and the bursty nature of web traffic works against us.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. Edge caching. In general, Egnyte connect architecture shards and caches data at different levels based on: Amount of data. Nginx for disk based caching. Disk based caching. Hybrid Sync.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52