DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In a previous article , we explained how we built benchmarks to keep track of those three metrics: precision, recall, and the most important here, speed. These benchmarks taught us a lot about the true internals of our engine at runtime and led to our first improvements.

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Processing Benchmarking Speed Engineering 243

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Configuring Grafana For our purposes, the Grafana datasource used in this PoC is also the Postgres data cluster that is generating the data to be monitored.

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 119

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. Or are they…?

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., When spreadsheets were originally conceived, data and formula were input by hand and so everything operated at human scale. Increasingly we’re dealing with larger and larger datasets — for example, data imported via csv files — and spreadsheets are creaking. Rahman et al.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

Most metrics are not atomic: FCP, for example, isn’t a metric we can optimise in isolation—it’s a culmination of other more atomic metrics such as connection overhead, TTFB, and more. As noted above, it’s not actually possible to improve certain metrics in their own right. mark ( ' HEAD Start ' ); performance. duration ).

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.” The app’s advanced algorithms and real-time data analytics translate utilization metrics into their CO2 equivalent (CO2e). These metrics include CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O. A host-level breakdown of energy consumption and CO2e impact.

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Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 233

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

That’s why I’m so excited to see Flow Metrics added to the latest SAFe iteration. Are they meeting their benchmarks for adoption, are their outcomes improving, are the KPIs different? outlines three core metrics : Outcomes : Are your solutions meeting the needs of customers and business? “As © Scaled Agile, Inc. Mik Kersten.

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Metrics DevOps Efficiency Benchmarking 98

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When it comes to Citus, successfully building out and scaling a PostgreSQL cluster across multiple nodes and even across data centers can feel, at times, to be an art form because there are so many ways of building it out. The following invocation generates almost 4GB of data.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

The primary metric for memory bandwidth in multicore processors is that maximum sustained performance when using many cores. This metric is interesting because we don’t always have the luxury of parallelizing every application we run, and our operating systems almost always process each call (e.g., Why not something like STREAM?

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Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability. Speed Index.

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are key to the SRE role; they are agreed-upon performance benchmarks that represent the health of an application or service. SREs need SLOs to measure and monitor performance, but many organizations lack the automation and intelligence to streamline data.

Artificial Intelligence 228

Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking DevOps Engineering 228

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The best way to fight regressions is to create performance budgets on key metrics, and get alerted when they go out of bounds. See the impact of performance on your business Correlation charts are a great way to communicate the business value of performance to everyone in your business – using your own data.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, that pesky 20% on the back end can have a big impact on downstream metrics like First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and any other 'loading' metric you can think of. SpeedCurve's RUM collection library – lux.js – accesses this interface to collect custom data from the user agent.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. Benefits of RUM include the following: Access to data from real end users across various applications, services, and environments.

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Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The result is smarter, data-driven solutions designed to manage cloud spend. Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. What is FinOps? This helps to prevent overprovisioning, underutilization of reserved instances, and hidden costs.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 195

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Teams can gain this understanding through topology mapping , with telemetry data from request traces, and understanding how the frontend ties to backend functions. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices. Deploy changes fast to optimize performance and eliminate bottlenecks.

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Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 231

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What do the different metrics mean? While the focus in most cases tends to be directed toward front-end developers, it's important to remember the back-end as well if you see higher than normal start render times or increases in more basic metrics like time to first byte. What do the different metrics mean? Let's get started.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. The next evolution of performance brought in paint metrics. This is where so-called interactivity metrics come in.

Metrics 71

Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. Enforcing benchmarks in real time. What are quality gates? Using quality gates for measurable impacts.

Benchmarking 182

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 182

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It can be measured based on real data from users visiting your sites ( field metric ) or in a lab environment ( lab metric ). In fact, several user-centric metrics are used to quantify web vitals. While most of the tools covered below only rely on field metrics, others use a mix of both field and lab metrics.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. These solutions provide performance metrics for applications, with specific insights into the statistics, such as the number of transactions processed by the application or the response time to process such transactions.

Artificial Intelligence 232

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 232

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

With this feature Oracle generates a wealth of performance data that can be reviewed once the test is complete. However what if you want to review performance data in real time as the test is running? you can now do that with Oracle Metrics. . The CPU option allows you to view the original live CPU metrics window.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Monitoring Performance C++ 40

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

When it comes to Dynatrace DEM, Vinh puts it simply: “We focus on providing answers instead of just more data.” 65% of businesses report that 40% of their customers now engage with them through mobile devices , and 70% of digital businesses will require IT and Ops to report digital metrics by 2025.

Mobile 166

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 166

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

We decided to run a few benchmarks to understand how the thread pool affects long-running transactions. When analyzing the workload, I found that the performance drop was caused by applications executing some very long queries like UPDATE affecting many rows, INSERT… SELECT without limit clause and other similar DMLs.

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Benchmarking Servers Tuning C++ 82

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. Gather observability data from all digital touchpoints.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I saw a change to my RUM data and I want to see if I can replicate it with synthetic for further diagnostics." "I Benchmarking. Based on feedback from our customers – as well as the industry at large – we now give you the ability to run tests when debugging, benchmarking, or just because you feel like it.

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Testing Benchmarking Performance Testing Metrics 74

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Also, agents optimize communication and, therefore, send monitoring data to back ends in batches. As a Lambda function can freeze anytime without warning, a Lambda code module needs to try to get the data out-of-process as quickly as possible without extending the runtime of the Lambda function too much.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 218

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. A performance budget is a threshold that you apply to the metrics you care about the most. This is when you run into three important questions: Which metrics should you focus on? Which metrics should you focus on?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing. You can see at a glance: Key metrics like Core Web Vitals and your User Happiness score. Your current competitive benchmarks status. Synthetic Site.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria that a service must meet before it is advanced to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. In other words, 90% of organizations either rely on manual quality checks or, even more risky, rely only on hope!

Cloud 240

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 240

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) Imagine "observable metrics": Are there metrics that _aren't_ observable? Means: What metrics and logs does it have?) - Let me try some observability first. For example, benchmarks. Observability.

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Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? Size matters especially to mobile users who have limited and/or metered data. It's important to mention that there have been changes to how the Archive collects data over the years. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Rigor

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Visual Metrics Alone Paint Only Half The Picture. Existing metrics like DOM Content Loaded and Onload Time are giving way to user-centric metrics such as visual timings and user timings. Interactivity metrics can provide insight and uncover blind spots not yet realized and are a valuable addition to your metrics arsenal.

Metrics 40

Metrics Social Media Website Retail 40