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. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

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. Convolutional Capsule primitives can be implemented reasonably efficiently on CPU but problems arise on accelerators (e.g. GPU and TPU).

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. When available, it can use hardware level performance counters.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Finally, the paper An Expanded Benchmarking of Beyond-CMOS Devices Based on Boolean and Neuromorphic Representative Circuits makes the case that some of these new technologies may potentially outperform CMOS on alternative computing paradigms such as non-boolean circuits based on cellular neural networks.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We constrain ourselves to a real-world baseline device + network configuration to measure progress. Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. The median user is on a slow network.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Apart from indexes, super efficient sorting and join operations are some major areas come to my mind with immediate benefits of using learned data structure. More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Prepare the testing environment: Make sure your hardware and network configurations closely reflect real world conditions. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G/4G network in your office for faster testing. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ Application design ​​ can become ​​ critical to efficient log space usage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Version7 (Future): Move all compute to the public cloud, carve out more services for impact isolation, dynamic resource pooling to manage pets and cattle efficiently.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52