Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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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., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. Every unnecessary bit of JavaScript code you bundle and serve will be more code the client has to load and process. Agustinus Theodorus.

Performance 127

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

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Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Over time we are seeing more applications with more complex physics and simulation characteristics so HPCG is becoming more relevant as a benchmark.

Architecture 52

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It focuses on aligning organizational needs with cloud services, balancing performance and cost, and ensuring compliance, security, and effective cost management. They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Pick combinations that are not just affordable but also high-performing.

Strategy 130

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. For Facebook’s Delos, reconfiguration latencies of 10s of ms are ok. What Facebook needed, literally, was a plan to throw one away.

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Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

The performance penalty of Full Page Writes As mentioned above, when the database page is modified for the first time after a checkpoint, that needs to be safely written to WAL as the trustable reference. But this comes with a considerable performance implication. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 115

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

Cache 92

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Rigor

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Reading time 4 min It’s important for both technical and business teams to understand the different web performance monitoring options that are available as well as their various use cases and the benefits of each. Understanding Web Performance Monitoring Methodologies. AB Test the Performance Impact of Third Parties.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Introduction: In December 2017, my colleague Damon McDougall (now at AMD) asked for help in porting the fused multiply-add example code from a Colfax report ( [link] ) to the Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing) processors here at TACC. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle. Instead, we found puzzle after puzzle.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. Aurora Features High Performance and Scalability Amazon Aurora has gained widespread recognition for its exceptional performance and scalability, making it an ideal solution for handling demanding workloads.

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KeyCDN

JUNE 20, 2019

eCommerce Conversion Rate Benchmarks First off, we’ll start with some benchmarks. Having high-quality images on your site can however slow down the performance of your site overall as the image size grows. We’ve written a comprehensive guide which gives 18 tips for website performance optimization.

Ecommerce 41

Ecommerce Speed Website Mobile 41

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Performance issues surrounding Availability Groups typically were related to disk I/O or network speeds. Our customers who deployed Availability Groups were now using servers for primary and secondary replicas with 12+ core sockets and flash storage SSD arrays providing microsecond to low millisecond latencies.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Reading time 11 min As companies become more aware of the importance of web performance, internal teams begin to research tools they can use to use to track their metrics and improve the user experience of their websites and applications. Where Google Lighthouse Shines Bright. Google Lighthouse has a lot going for it.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. Likewise, object access paths must be heavily multi-threaded and avoid lock contention to minimize access latency and maximize throughput. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Different implementations can have profound effects on SQL Server performance.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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