CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

Most metrics are not atomic: FCP, for example, isn’t a metric we can optimise in isolation—it’s a culmination of other more atomic metrics such as connection overhead, TTFB, and more. As noted above, it’s not actually possible to improve certain metrics in their own right. mark ( ' HEAD Start ' ); performance. duration ).

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Are you compressing and caching the right things? It shows how key metrics align with the rendering timeline (the filmstrip view at the top of the chart).

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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. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. These events, known as trigger events, can include actions like inserting, updating, or deleting records in database tables.

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . As HammerDB supports graphical metrics for Oracle, this provides the best illustration however the concepts apply in general terms to all databases. To illustrate the data reads on Oracle we can flush the buffer cache.

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

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. Another window into this question is provided by the Web Confluence Metrics project.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

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