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! Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform. The two sub-variants differ in ambition owing to the market positions of their OS sponsors.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52