Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Data loading patterns are an essential part of your application as they will determine which parts of your application are directly usable by visitors. But isn’t waiting for the data the point?

Cache 127

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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. It collects various statistics data such as query statistics, query plan, SQL comments, and other performance insights. And yes, it even works in PostgreSQL.

Benchmarking 121

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 121

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.

Energy 238

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 238

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Tim Kadlec

APRIL 18, 2019

” The fallacy of networks, or new devices for that matter, fixing our performance woes is old and repetitive. To be fair, each new generation of network connectivity does bring some level of change and transformation to how we interact with the internet. The fastest 4G network clocks in around 10 Mbps, and the slowest around 6.3

Network 61

Network Speed Internet Internet 61

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

However, as an internal benchmark, there are compelling reasons why some of you may actually want to keep tracking these ‘outdated’ metrics… Measure the User Experience The problem with using diagnostic metrics like Load or DOMContentLoaded to measure site-speed is that it has no bearing on how a user might actually experience your site.

Metrics 326

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To function effectively, containers need to be able to communicate with each other and with network services. If containers are run with privileged flags, or if they receive details about host processes, they can easily become points of compromise for corporate networks. Network scanners. Why is container security tricky?

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

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.

Infrastructure 187

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 187

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Mergeable replicated data types – part II Kaki et al., Last time out we saw how Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) use a bijection between the natural domain of a data type and relational sets to define merge semantics between two concurrently modified versions given their lowest common ancestor (LCA).

C++ 98

C++ Storage Benchmarking Efficiency 98

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

In today’s complex, data-driven world, many security vulnerabilities and attacks can jeopardize an organization’s data. To ensure the safety of their customers, employees, and business data, organizations must have a strategy to protect against zero-day vulnerabilities. Application logs are a good data source for this method.

Java 191

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 191

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. Simply put, infrastructure monitoring is the oxygen to your infrastructure, collecting all the data for a complete picture of availability, performance, and resource efficiency.

Infrastructure 205

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 205

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A voice actor in the studio Our Approach to Speech and Music Activity Detection Although the application of deep learning methods has improved audio classification systems in recent years, this data driven approach for SMAD requires large amounts of audio source material with audio-frame level speech and music activity labels.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways A cloud workload encompasses any application or service running on a cloud infrastructure, facilitating tasks ranging from basic functions to advanced data analysis with the help of resources like databases, collaboration tools, and disaster recovery systems. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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 ). PageSpeed Compare is a page speed evaluation and benchmarking tool. PageSpeed Compare measures vitals like FCP, LCP, FID, CLS, and others using land and field data. PageSpeed Compare. Large preview ).

Performance 130

Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. RUM collects data on each user action within a session, including the time required to complete the action, so IT pros can identify patterns and where to make improvements in experience.

Best Practices 179

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 179

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In the worst case, you have to inform customers and the public about security breaches and stolen data. WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach.

Traffic 237

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 237

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Traces collected from various microservices are ingested in a stream processing manner into the data store.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It's also important to note that, while not all performance gains will show up in your metrics, users with poor bandwidth or restrictive data plans will thank you. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Cloudfront can sometimes have a big impact on performance. Benchmark yourself. The internet.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

Indeed, according to recent Uptime Institute data, outages have become far more expensive over the past several years. With an observability platform powered by contextual software intelligence, organizations can gather data on incidents in real-time and proactively. What device are they using over what type of network?

Benchmarking 175

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 175

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data collection is an example,” Reitbauer says. Companies are all using the same data. While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards?

Open Source 195

Open Source Software Software Development 195

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. We’re now allowing for even easier OneAgent rollout by freeing up the /opt mount point from any runtime data that’s produced by OneAgents. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 201

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 201

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next. better cluster resource utilization.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced. What's changed since last year? And how much more HTML, CSS, and (particularly) JavaScript can a new project afford?

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

But pages keep getting bigger and more complex year over year – and this increasing size and complexity is not fully mitigated by faster devices and networks, or by our hard-working browsers. Size matters especially to mobile users who have limited and/or metered data. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This covers everything from tech specs and what you expect from the service to security, how you’ll handle data, and how services will be managed. Hosting either on-premises or with third-party data center providers and deciding whether management services should be conducted internally or outsourced.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. Likewise it has very low requirements on the initial amount of training data.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

No more network-based EBS, just blazing-fast local SSD. Slave-2 uses an EBS data disk, and you can configure the amount of IOPS required for your cluster. This configuration provides complete safety for your data, even in the event you lose the local SSD disks. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. community edition.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data collection is an example,” Reitbauer says. Companies are all using the same data. While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards?

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data collection is an example,” Reitbauer says. Companies are all using the same data. While companies historically use patents to measure an organization’s innovation output, contributions to open source projects provide another innovation benchmark. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards?

Open Source 130

Open Source Software Software Development 130