Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. For Facebook’s Delos, reconfiguration latencies of 10s of ms are ok. Once the database was restored to five replicas, we reconfigured back.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Offscreen Canvas.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This is a complex topic, but to borrow from a recent post , web performance expands access to information and services by reducing latency and variance across interactions in a session, with a particular focus on the tail of the distribution (P75+). Consistent performance matters just as much as low average latency.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 107

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" " package.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. For this reason sysbench presents a vastly more simplified workload than HammerDB. . 10 rows in set (0.02

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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