Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. By focusing on the server, digital performance has become much more consistent, even under the weight of massive amounts of consumer load.

Retail 230

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 230

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 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In this article, we will study in detail about the how SQL Server Index Fill factor works. Index Fill factor SQL Server Index Fill Factor is a percentage value to be filled data page with data in SQL Server. This option is available in index properties to manage data storage in the data pages.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Servers Performance Storage 56

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. 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. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

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

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. Steps Provisioning The first step is to provision the four nodes with both PostgreSQL and Citus.

Database 103

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 103

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

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

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

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

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. This means that as your application grows and more clients connect to the database, pgpool-II can distribute the load across multiple servers, preventing any one server from becoming overwhelmed.

Cache 113

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 113

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

Improving each of these should hopefully chip away at the timings of more granular events that precede the LCP milestone, but whenever we’re making these kinds of indirect optimisation, we need to think much more carefully about how we measure and benchmark ourselves as we work. one can’t just whack async on a and hope for the best).

Benchmarking 212

Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

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. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 209

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 209

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

Two setups running in cluster mode: one in MariaDB+Galera and one with Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona Server+Galera). We decided to run a few benchmarks to understand how the thread pool affects long-running transactions. For this reason, I’ve set up a server with the following specs: r6a.2xlarge

Benchmarking 83

Benchmarking Servers Tuning C++ 83

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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 241

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 241

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by default, processors work with virtual memory address translation for each 4KB page. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information.

C++ 96

C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 96

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The scope of OSS ranges from small components, such as a Java class library, to complete systems, such as the Apache HTTP Server Project and the Kubernetes container management system. Data collection is an example,” Reitbauer says. Companies are all using the same data. Drives a culture of innovation. What are open standards?

Open Source 199

Open Source Software Software Development 199

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 183

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 103

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 103

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. To provide dynamic content, SPAs mostly rely on REST APIs to fetch their data using a means provided by modern browsers, such as XHR or fetch. Auto scaling.

Lambda 229

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 229

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

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When a new node joins the cluster, SST is performed to receive the data from DONOR to the JOINER. JOINER uses PXB to stream the data directory from DONOR. Percona XtraBackup copies the InnoDB data files. Percona XtraBackup copies the InnoDB data files. JOINER must prepare the backup before using it.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Cache 100

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 100

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. To provide dynamic content, SPAs mostly rely on REST APIs to fetch their data using a means provided by modern browsers, such as XHR or fetch. Auto scaling.

Lambda 191

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 191

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. In a breakout session at Dynatrace Perform 2022, they explained how.

Benchmarking 179

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 179

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. Though it may be overwhelming, there can still be great appeal when one has control over their own data privacy requirements depending on how customization is desired by the organization itself.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. The sizes offer you options for the number of vCPUs, RAM, and data disks. VM Image Options. Generation.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. Fault tolerance aims for zero downtime and data loss. Data replication : Data is continually copied from one database to another to ensure that the system remains operational even if one database fails.

Availability 106

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

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

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. This helps to minimise locking allowing multiple sessions to access the same data at the same time. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Correlate RUM data with synthetic diagnostics in the same charts (e.g., Page labels give you the opportunity to gain richer insights from your data, and then to make that data actionable. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) For example, benchmarks. If they trusted me with a login to their production servers, I could help them a lot quicker. Observability: The ability to observe. Observe-ability. Observability.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

3 billion : Tesla's yearly spend on gigafactories; 18,000 : GDPR data breach notifications since May; 30 : happy birthday Morris Worm!; matei_zaharia : Since we opened #DAWNBench deep learning benchmark rolling submissions, there have been some cool entires. book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. You can now train CIFAR10 for just $0.06

Internet 192

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 192