Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. How To Benchmark And Improve Web Vitals With Real User Metrics. Different products will have different benchmarks and two apps may perform differently against the same metrics, but still rank quite similarly to our subjective “good” and “bad” verdicts.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 119

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Vulnerability management Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, rectifying, and reporting software vulnerabilities. Implementing vulnerability management in your application security process aids in vulnerability detection and prevention before they can enter production code.

Best Practices 198

Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 198

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Release validation is a critical DevOps practice to help ensure that code released into production is successful. But as more organizations adopt DevOps methodologies and release software faster, they are finding that they need a strategy to evolve and automate their release validation practices. What is release validation?

DevOps 198

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 198

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Teams can shape and shift an agile application or service to fit ever-changing business models, mitigating the risk of support loss in legacy software environments. Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services. Application modernization allows organizations to continuously deliver best-case user experiences.

Strategy 215

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 215

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. Ahem, Slow! In Byteland they have a very strange monetary system.

Java 214

Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 214

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. Moreover, it takes an average of nine hours for a software engineer to remediate a problem within a production application.

DevOps 193

DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation 193

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For evidence, I refer you to the research that we recently published in which 62% of CISOs told us that container runtime environments have negatively impacted their ability to detect and manage software vulnerabilities. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications.

Open Source 239

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 239

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Site reliability engineering seeks to bridge the gap between developers and operations teams, embedding reliability and resiliency into each stage of the software development lifecycle. Additionally, 60% report spending much of their time building and maintaining automation code.

Artificial Intelligence 217

Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking DevOps Engineering 217

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Zero day refers to security vulnerabilities that are discovered in software when teams had “zero days” to work on an update or a patch to remediate the issue and, hence, are already at risk. If a malicious attacker can identify a key software vulnerability, they can exploit the vulnerability, allowing them to gain access to your systems.

Java 179

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 179

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

HammerDB has increased dramatically in popularity and use and has been identified as the industry default for database benchmarking illustrating both the popularity of open source and TPC based benchmarks. The first step towards this goal is the recently announced move of the HammerDB source code to the TPC-Council GitHub repository.

Code 48

Code Benchmarking Open Source Website 48

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It has now been worked out in a paper to appear in Software: Practice and Experience called Faster Remainder by Direct Computation. In concrete terms, here is the C code to compute the remainder of the division by some fixed divisor d : uint32_t d =. ; // your divisor > 0. We also published our benchmarks for research purposes.

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

With the increasing adoption of agile software development, DevOps , progressive continuous delivery, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, many companies are aiming to deliver better software faster and more safely while keeping up with customer demands. What are quality gates? Shift left your SRE practices.

Cloud 235

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 235

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

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. <code> 127.0.0.1:6379> <code> 127.0.0.1:6379>

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Likewise, refactoring and rewriting code takes a lot of time and effort. In fact, it can be difficult to make code changes that won’t disrupt the entire system. Security should be an integral part of each stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from development to monitoring in real time.

Architecture 220

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 220

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. But research shows that 60% of SREs find they spend most of their time building and maintaining automation code. Dynatrace news.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. It explains that APM tools “allow users to monitor and track the performance of particular software or web applications to identify and solve any performance issues that may arise. APM solutions: A primer.

Artificial Intelligence 223

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 223

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. Adopt standard coding practices like code cleanup, reusable code, documented code, etc.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. Root-cause analysis: Get actionable answers to problems in real-time, down to the code level. It’s not hype, it’s the way forward.

Infrastructure 189

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 189

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We believe the only way to maintain and scale our standards is to focus on quality code. T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

First, its origin was in a monoculture (the browser) wher e there was no need for compatibility with legacy code. 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.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In software, compilers can often optimize away integer divisions, and replace them with cheaper instructions, especially when the divisor is a constant. I expect that the compiler will turn this code into a sequence of instructions over 32-bit registers: uint32_t compilermod32 ( uint32_t a ) {. My source code is available.

Benchmarking 138

Benchmarking C++ Games Code 138

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. 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.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We used the first processor socket for the MySQL database and the second socket for the benchmark (sysbench or HammerDB).

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. A quick primer on Lambda functions.

Lambda 210

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 210

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The broken Java stacks turned out to be beneficial: They helped group together the os::javaTimeMillis() calls which otherwise might have have been scattered on top of different Java code paths, appearing as thin stacks everywhere. Without NMI, some kernel code paths (interrupts disabled) can't be profiled. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. A quick primer on Lambda functions.

Lambda 173

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 173

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This enables the user to compare and contrast performance across different benchmark scenarios. The events are colour coded and indexed in the graph to the wait event groups. Metrics view for benchmark. PostgreSQL Graphical Metrics. Install pg_stat_statements and pg_sentinel extensions.

Metrics 62

Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. The /opt directory is typically used for deployment of additional software running on the Unix system. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 185

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 185