Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Apica

MAY 10, 2019

These powerful brands drive much excitement and, of course, dollars. The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands.

Testing 40

Testing Performance Social Media Wireless 40

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer provides a virtual database that reports various useful statistics. Performance Testing. So, we pitted the two connection poolers head-to-head, using the standard pgbench tool, to see which one provides better transactions per second throughput through a benchmark test. Testing Conditions.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40