Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Querying the data While it is reasonable to create panels showing real-time load in order to explore better the types of queries that can be run against pg_stat_monitor, it is more practical to copy and query the data into tables after the benchmarking has completed its run. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

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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.

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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. However, although these results are the gold standard of database benchmarking to do so, requires time, expertise and not insignificant cost.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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.

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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

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

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. It is designed to cache plain text values, offering fast read and write access to frequently accessed data. Memcached’s primary strength lies in its simplicity. Global Reach and Cloud Integration ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In fact, according to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey , JavaScript and Python are now the #1 and #2 most used programming languages, respectively (excluding HTML/CSS and SQL as “programming languages”). To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

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 170

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 170

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The study is conducted using a suite of 7 real-world popular scientific applications, and two well-established benchmark suites: Miniaero solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. PARSEC is a set of benchmarks for multi-threaded programs. is a set of benchmarks for parallel computing developed by NASA.

Benchmarking 101

Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

High availability storage options within the context of cloud computing involve highly adaptable storage solutions specifically designed for storing vast amounts of data while providing easy access to it. This can vary from simple programs to complex database systems handling numerous query demands. What is the workload in a server?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

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

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. Challenges optimising whole programs. “ Challenges evolving programming languages. “ Challenges evolving programming languages.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

One of the important attributes of their design was easy and rapid deployment across an existing fleet. These techniques work well for scientific programs that are dominated by arrays. However, they are ineffective on object-based programs because objects do not fall neatly into fixed-size blocks and have a more irregular layout.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

Having done this before, it reminds me of CSS programming: you make a little change here and everything breaks, and you spend hours chasing your own tail. For Fedora, one person requested: "Meta and/or Netflix should provide infrastructure for a side repository in which the change can be tested and benchmarked and the code size measured."

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

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.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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. Javascript: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Learn JavaScript Programming Step by Step. The Art of SEO.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It is essentially a set of instructions or a program that is executed automatically in response to specific events or actions occurring within the database. However, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks, especially if poorly designed. Well-designed indexes can significantly improve query performance within triggers.

Cache 60

Cache Database Games Healthcare 60

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

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. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The phenomenon of plateauing ST performance is a consequence of design constraints – primarily power. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of a SOC in a current Ultrabook design is constrained to 15W. In view of this it is perhaps worth pondering why ST performance growth has stalled and some options to revive the growth.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. The AMD EPYC 7551 processor has slightly lower single-threaded CPU performance when compared to the older 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) and the 2.4 SQL Server Impact.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Vitaly specializes in front-end development, performance optimization, and responsive design, and he has made an epic contribution to the performance industry in addition to many other technology and design-related spaces. He was also the founder and president of Mobile Portland, where he started the first community device lab.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Programming Languages. When you download the source code for HammerDB you can see that the programming language it is written in is called TCL. TCL was designed as a language to be closely tied with C/C++ and at this lower level there is the compiled TCL (tclsh) or TCL/TK (wish) interpreter and supporting libraries.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Its component-based design lets you write code that renders on iOS, Android, and the web. JSX provides you the flexibility of the whole programming language with temporary variables, flow controls and the ability to reference JS values directly in scope. Styled Components: to alter the design & feel of the UI components.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. Front-end developers are cursed to program the Devil's computer. Understanding the differences in the experiences of wealthy developers versus working-class users helps to make the diffuse surface of the privilege bubble perceptible.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This model helps to design targeted usage expansion campaigns. Propensity to category expansion.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To help our customers manage ongoing data explosion, we have designed many of the core components over the last few years. I mean that as your scale grows then design patterns and strategies that used to work 2 years ago and allowed you to go from defensive to offensive positioning may buckle under pressure or becomes cost-prohibitive.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hardware performance counter results for a simple benchmark code calling Intel’s optimized DGEMM implementation for this processor (from the Intel MKL library) show that about 20% of the dynamic instruction count consists of instructions that are not packed SIMD operations (i.e., FMAs/cycle. .

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Design To fully understand SQL Server I/O design, it is important to understand the basics of database file I/O operations, transaction log I/O operations, and transactional consistency maintenance. The I/O and transactional design of SQL Server ensures that the ACID properties are fully maintained.

Servers 40

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