High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

These powerful brands drive much excitement and, of course, dollars. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components. These companies should involve multiple organizations during Apica’s load testing to observe and pinpoint opportunities for performance tuning.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40