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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Kubernetes Observability: Code Profiling With Flame Graphs

Percona

It shows which code paths are more busy on the CPU in given samples. The idea behind this is to speed up cluster resources such as garbage collection, reduce image transfer over the network, and accelerate the application launch. Flame graphs are a graphical representation of function calls.

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Measure What You Impact, Not What You Influence

CSS Wizardry

I can reload the exact same page under the exact same network conditions over and over, and I can guarantee I will not get the exact same, say, DOMContentLoaded each time. What if another file on the critical path had dropped out of cache and needed fetching from the network? There are myriad reasons for this that I won’t cover here.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Source code tests. Network scanners.

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In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded

CSS Wizardry

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

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What is software automation? Optimize the software lifecycle with intelligent automation

Dynatrace

Consider how AI-enabled chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard help DevOps teams write code snippets or resolve problems in custom code without time-consuming human intervention. Investigate network systems and application security incidents quickly for near-real-time remediation. Operations. Application security.

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