High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. In addition to other content written by seasoned industry experts, this path includes core material from our bestselling course Grokking the System Design Interview.

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

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Have you tuned your environment? 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. Schema, data, and app migration: Do you have the right tools at your disposal?

Database 80

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 80

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

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Most recently, he launched a fantastic new HTML5 Mastery… course. And, of course, you should follow him on Twitter @ igrigorik for in-depth insights on web performance metrics, user experience, and industry news. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Alternatively, if you want to do something new and expressive, or that has never been done before, then fine, of course. Stay tuned! If your aim is to produce a new typeface based on historical exemplars, tradition, or design, then fine, this is what you will be aiming for. Further Reading on Smashing Magazine.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. We have a pretty good lay of the land and have plotted a rough course for where the road (roadmap) “could” go.

Design 92

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

These guidelines work well for a wide range of applications, though the optimal settings, of course, depend on the workload. Benchmark before you decide. If you see concurrency issues, you can tune this variable. Application tuning for InnoDB Make sure your application is prepared to handle deadlocks that may happen.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Of course, this requires a VM that provides rock-solid isolation, and in AWS Lambda, this is the Firecracker microVM. In this case, as the provisioning life cycle diagram shows, the worker node has to be provisioned with the given Lambda function, which does, of course, take some time. Stay tuned?for functionality?in

Lambda 218

Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 218

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. But that won’t solve the ordering issue of course. Challenges optimising whole programs.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. Stay tuned! Show it off.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

Randon ASCII

APRIL 17, 2018

And, of course, this post will also cover how to detect and avoid this problem. When you own all of the code then this may involve some back of the envelope estimates, competitive benchmarking, or intuition tuned by experience. Part 0 of this series was written seven years ago: Making VirtualAlloc Arbitrarily Slower.

Monitoring 43

Monitoring C++ Code Processing 43