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

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services. Or, the team might use specific serverless designs as part of the modernization efforts. Measuring new performance requirements against benchmarks and other migration efforts can help teams refine processes and improve application usage and performance.

Strategy 235

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 235

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. offers the Software Watchdog specifically designed for this purpose.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

InfoQ

JANUARY 12, 2021

In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions. By Yaron Elyashiv.

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Performance Design Network 119

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.

Cloud 204

Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 204

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

More than half (51%) of SREs say they dedicate significant time to influencing architectural design decisions to improve reliability. Integrating these developers with the design process provides insight that enables architects to incorporate reliability from day one. A shift to SRE-driven engineering takes hold.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve? READ : How to create a competitive benchmark dashboard ––––– 4.

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 64

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. InterviewCamp.io

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Platforms that are useful in tracking, securing, and administering workloads across multiple clouds include: CloudZero AnyCost Terraform Lacework Cloudify These platforms, designed to handle setups across multiple clouds, make it easier to deploy and manage your cloud resources in a structured way.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

Vitality’s platform is designed to let customers take control of their own wellness by creating insurance and investment frameworks that best meet their needs. First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. DEM in action.

Mobile 172

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 172

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): New design (from Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28) In this new design, user tables are loaded only if there is a transaction rollback on them. The new design is as follows: Tables from the cache are evicted when the cache size limit is reached or by the background master thread.

Cache 84

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 84

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

” APM vendors originally designed their solutions to quickly identify application performance issues in monolithic on-premises apps. Your APM tool should help you establish performance benchmarks, so you can understand what good performance looks like. Application performance insights.

Artificial Intelligence 237

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 237

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. Please note that the focus of these tests was around standard metrics gathering and display, we’ll use a future blog post to benchmark some of the more intensive query analytics (QAN) performance numbers.

Monitoring 98

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 98

High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

dweis : I'm an actual author of Protocol Buffers :) I think Sandy's analysis would benefit from considering why Protocol Buffers behave the way they do rather than outright attacking the design because it doesn't appear to make sense from a PL-centric perspective. Maybe it's flawed, but the design is absolutely on the right traack.

Internet 123

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 123

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Schema design: Evaluating the database schema design and making adjustments such as partitioning large tables, eliminating redundant data, and denormalizing tables for frequently accessed information can improve performance. Our blog article, Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc , can guide you through the benchmarking process.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. Looking across a set of eight Java benchmarks, we find that only two of them are array dominated, the rest having between 40% to 75% of the heap footprint allocated to objects, the vast majority of which are small. Evaluation.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Apica

APRIL 11, 2023

One alternative is deploying a platform designed for testing and monitoring observability. Establish performance benchmarks to help you identify when your applications perform as designed before impacting the user experience. On the consumer side, more smart devices are introduced every year.

IoT 52

IoT Benchmarking Scalability Network 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. more transactions than system B in the fully audited benchmark then the HammerDB result was also 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. The design space. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). On Athena, Q2 timed out after an hour, and Q8, Q9 and Q21 failed after exhausting resources.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

For UX designers, product managers, developers - essential concepts, methods, and techniques for digital design that have withstood the test of time. Designing for Performance. High Performance Responsive Design. Responsive Web Design. Information Architecture. Web Performance Daybook-Volume-2. Mobile First.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Performance Website 75

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

The older devices also have different screen resolutions which mean several features have to be categorically designed for them. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. Such information helps us design experiences for a higher retention rate.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

Design 126

Design Social Media Website Best Practices 126

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

By design, the state that is required for the execution of the pipeline is passed into the invocation as TInContext and passed out of the invocation into the next part of the pipeline as TOutContext. With that in mind, we can store all behaviors of the pipeline in an array of IBehavior objects in the context. Behaviors[1]).Invoke(ctx1,

Lambda 98

Lambda C++ Benchmarking Code 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. Some companies may insert a design/research spike just before the epic kicks off but it always feels reactionary and ends up being a hack shortcut. Assemble A Crew.

Design 92

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 92