Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Existing RASP solutions often introduce a significant overhead negatively impacting application performance and customer experience. RASP solutions may lack the precision required to confidently apply automatic blocking of attacks.

Traffic 235

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 235

HammerDB

JUNE 22, 2023

Turning Jobs Off and On Of course one of the most important aspects is to be able to disable the functionality. We can now see the list of Jobs we generated with autopilot, that they all ran successfully, and also pinpoint the highest performance. In HammerDB v4.7 Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser C:Program FilesHammerDB-4.8>hammerdbws

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking C++ Virtualization Database 57

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

JANUARY 11, 2024

In my previous article, Comparisons of Proxies for MySQL, I showed how MySQL Router was the lesser performing Proxy in the comparison. From that time to now, we had several MySQL releases and, of course, also some new MySQL Router ones.Most importantly, we also had MySQL Router going back to being a level 7 proxy […]

Performance 87

Performance Benchmarking Availability Servers 87

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. shared_buffer.

Tuning 54

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 54

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As Kinsta’s DevOps Engineer, you will be instrumental in making sure that our infrastructure is always on the bleeding edge of technology, remaining stable and high-performing at all times. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. The storage device has performance characteristics pretty similar to an AWS gp2 EBS volume of about 330 GB in size. Now, how does this workload perform on InnoDB?

Storage 55

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Here are some common questions I’m asked when I talk with people about performance: Which metrics should I care about? What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? With Page Speed Benchmarks, you can do things like: See what the different metrics actually mean in terms of user-perceived performance.

Benchmarking 135

Benchmarking Speed Performance Media 135

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This means they can ensure that every possible scenario is tested, from data integrity checks to performance benchmarks. Then, of course, there’s the possibility of issues arising post- migration. Additionally, when an in-house team is managing the migration, they’re not managing their usual responsibilities.

Database 80

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 80

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

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. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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. How would you measure performance? Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Other times it’s about how fast a task is performed. Performance vs Perceived Performance.

Benchmarking 116

Benchmarking Metrics Best Practices Monitoring 116

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

AWS 93

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 93

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. For both the time it will take for the build to complete will depend on the HammerDB client CPU and the performance of the database server being loaded, during this time each action will be printed to the display.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost. That ‘reasonable’ performance cost is a 6.8% For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This, of course, is exacerbated by the new Vitals announcement, whereby data from the Chrome User eXperience Report will be used to aid and influence rankings. WebPageTest is easily, by far, without a shadow of a doubt, the single most important tool when it comes to web performance. Everything is very Google centric. It’s vital.

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

The challenging thing of course, is efficiently maintaining all of these parallel universes. For good query performance we’d like to pre-compute these per-user universes. It therefore requires partially-materialized views that support high-performance updates. Expressing privacy policies. It runs to about 2,000 lines of Rust.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

Most of the benchmarks require 5 or fewer input-output examples for the desired program to be generated, only one benchmark needs more than 10. I could inspect the code of course, but for a certain class of target user that’s not a satisfactory solution. can successfully synthesis programs in all cases, taking 0.43

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Looking at how people are using COUNT(*) and COUNT(col), it looks like most of them think they are synonyms and just use what they happen to like, while there is a substantial difference in performance and even query results. For IO-bound workloads, you frequently can see even a 100 times performance difference in this case.

Cache 74

Cache Engineering Storage Speed 74

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s of course doubtful that you will be able to achieve the same savings that I’ll be showing here, but you will get some useful pointers and tips on things to keep in mind when dealing with videos. We do not deploy images from our camera directly to the web, but we compress and resize them to balance quality and web performance.

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In this post, I show some of the reasons why that's true, using the Amazon Redshift team and the approach they have taken to improve the performance of their data warehousing service as an example. Verifying benchmark claims. Optimizing performance for bursts of user activity. Verifying benchmark claims.

Cloud 135

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our final post, we will put them head-to-head in a detailed feature comparison and compare the results of PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II performance for your PostgreSQL hosting ! Performance Testing. All of the PostgreSQL benchmark tests were run under the following conditions: Initialized pgbench using a scale factor of 100.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. While that Java change led to discovering countless performance wins in application code, libc was still breaking some portion of the samples (as pictured in the example at the top of this post) and preventing off-CPU flame graphs.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. Of course, with new locations we will always introduce a separate pool of IP addresses as well. Dynatrace news. After 1 December 2019 Dynatrace Synthetic will use the new set of IP addresses .

Scalability 20

Scalability Traffic Benchmarking Monitoring 20

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Its videos and blog articles address issues such as web performance, extensible component development and the intersection of CSS with other technologies, like HTML and JavaScript. Igvita Igvita is the blog of Google’s web performance engineer, Ilya Grigorik. Visit website 3. Visit website 19. Visit website 20. Visit website 37.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Of course, if d is not a power of two, 2 N / d cannot be represented as an integer. We also published our benchmarks for research purposes. I make my benchmarking code available. Thus if 2 N / d has been precomputed, you can compute the division n/d as a multiplication and a shift. And don’t skip the introduction!

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 So this type of performance has to come at a cost, right? cost reduction compared to running Cassandra, as they can achieve this performance with only 10% of the nodes. percentile latency is up to 11X better than Cassandra on AWS EC2 bare metal.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

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