Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Container security is the practice of applying security tools, processes, and policies to protect container-based workloads. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

Open Source 247

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 247

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Memcached Explained: The Simplicity of Caching Alternatively, Memcached, a high-performance, open-source caching solution, prides itself on its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d This simplifies debugging and analysis processes by enabling users to execute the same query.

Benchmarking 124

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 124

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. It is better to consider refactoring as part of the application transformation process before migrating, if possible.

Architecture 228

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 228

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

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Elevate your cloud strategy today with ScaleGrid!

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

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 now lets see what we get in performance mode, an almost 32% improvement (and 53% higher than the published benchmarks). ./bin/pgbench

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server. MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

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. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. PostgreSQL’s Tuneable Parameters. shared_buffer.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The kubectl-flame container has the hostPID option enabled, and this provides visibility of the underlying Kubernetes node process ID namespace to collect system events from running processes on the host. In the following example, we’ll see how to manually run perf on a mysqld process inside a Kubernetes pod.

Code 112

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 112

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. As datasets continue to grow in size, the amount of RAM required to store and process these datasets also increases. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction. A node completes the SST process faster and joins the PXC cluster quickly. This phase has no concept of a row or a transaction.

Cache 87

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 87

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. Compression: Compression is the process of restructuring the data by changing its encoding in order to store it in fewer bytes.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. Individual processes generate WAL records, and latency is very crucial for transactions. This is generally referred to as “ partial page writes ” or “ torn pages.”

Database 118

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 118

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

How would you integrate some new fancy processing library into MySQL without having to recreate the complexities in pure SQL? The first file is for cmake which informs the overall build process that it should include, and compile our plugin. $ Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! mkdir ~/percona-server-8.0.32-24/plugin/ulid/

C++ 82

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 82

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important? I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

may not be directly comparable with the results from previous releases for your database. The reason for these changes is that over time for some databases more advanced features or drivers have been introduced that improve performance since the time that the original HammerDB transactions or interfaces were written. From HammerDB v4.0

C++ 52

C++ Benchmarking Metrics Database 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management.

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The process model, user-kernel interactions, dynamic linking, and memory management concerns are all in scope, and the protection spans the OS/DBMS boundary. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. code is not given access to excessive capabilities. Evaluation.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. In fact all of this source code is also included in readable form with each and every release. loaded library db2tcl for Db2 Checking database library for MySQL Success.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

The Morning Paper

JULY 2, 2019

In data processing it seems, all roads eventually lead back to SQL! Note that a mutable database table, as perceived by a consumer across multiple queries, is already a time-varying relation (TVR). In particular, we need to take care to separate the event time from the processing time (which could be some arbitrary time later).

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Processing Benchmarking Open Source 65

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. 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. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

MrTonyD : I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). It used to be a very high autonomy job - where you were trusted to figure out your work process and usually given lots of freedom to dynamically define many of your deliverables (within reason). @dhh JavaScript benchmark. I acknowledge that.

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants. Ariya Ariya Hidayat, the author of this blog, maintains two well-known open source projects (PhantomJS and Esprima).

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I guessed that maybe ChatGPT only knew about v2 since it was trained on open-source code from before September 2021 (its knowledge cutoff date) and v2 was the dominant format before that date. And since this setup process was so new to me, I had a hard time thinking about how to phrase my questions.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98