Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Cloud provider hypervisor changes (for cloud guests) 1. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Practically, I'm expecting the cloud systems at my employer (Netflix) to experience between 0.1% They are: 1. Linux 4.14

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. A Look at MyRocks Performance.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Cloud provider hypervisor changes (for cloud guests) 1. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Practically, I'm expecting the cloud systems at my employer (Netflix) to experience between 0.1% They are: 1. Linux 4.14

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

These virtual users simulate realistic scenarios scripted and recorded with Apica’s ZebraTester tool so that hundreds, thousands, and millions of tests run concurrently in a Streaming companies/studios’ pre-production or production environments before the episodes are actually ‘aired.’

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

High Scalability

DECEMBER 3, 2019

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well.

Best Practices 21

Best Practices Performance Systems Processing 21

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. JavaScript stresses single-core performance (remember, it’s inherently more single-threaded than the rest of the Web Platform) and is CPU bound. Plus, it’s even supported on Fastly’s edge cloud. kernels and later ( thanks, Yoav! ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Migration to cloud. Cloud Platform.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52