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

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. This includes development, user acceptance testing, beta testing, and general availability. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 183

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 183

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

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Learning to tell the difference is helpful for browser project managers and engineers, but also working web developers who struggle to develop theories of change for affecting browser teams. This developer-enabling flywheel aims to liberate computing from any single OS, supporting an ephemeral services model of computing.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 It adds overhead to tests that exercise the kernel memory controller, even when cgroups aren’t being used.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. It’s inherently tied to everything we build and develop. Improvement #3: Unblock parsing.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92