ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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. Derived Workloads.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. Deployment performs the whole rollout, instrumentation, configuration, connection, and automatic detection of monitored entities in your environment. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 196

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 196

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. How does high availability work? Redundancy is also critical for disaster recovery.

Availability 112

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Today’s paper introduces Zippads , which compared to a state of the art compressed memory hierarchy is able to achieve a 1.63x higher compression ratio and improve performance by 17%. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below. ” The big idea. Implications.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. 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. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

Open Source 93

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 93

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Horizontal and vertical MySQL partitions are techniques used to divide tables into smaller sections for improved performance and management. Various partition types, like RANGE, LIST, HASH, and KEY, are used for specific needs, from range-based data to custom criteria, to ensure efficient data handling and the optimization of queries.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

The Morning Paper

JUNE 11, 2019

The goal here is to reduce the training times of DNNs by finding efficient parallel execution strategies, and even including its search time, FlexFlow is able to increase training throughput by up to 3.3x FlexFlow is also given a device topology graph describing all the available hardware devices and their interconnections.

Network 81

Network Strategy Hardware Benchmarking 81

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

In this paper we argue that systems for numerical computing are stuck in a local basin of performance and programmability. 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. a research paper.

Systems 87

Systems Tuning Programming Innovation 87

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

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 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 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

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

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Over the last decade, flagship processors from Intel and AMD have been eking out only marginal cross-generational single threaded (ST) performance gains. Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count. The coupling of these two factors have led to the aforementioned stagnation of ST performance.

Architecture 67

Architecture Technology Technology Innovation 67

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

For 64-bit floating-point data, the 512-bit Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions performs 16 floating-point operations (8 adds and 8 multiplies). Published DGEMM benchmark results for the Xeon Phi 7250 processor ( [link] ) show maximum values of about 2100 GFLOPS when using all 68 cores (a very approximate estimate from a bar chart).

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Consistency When completed, a transaction must leave all data in a consistent state.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ Performing ​​ safety ​​ checks ​​ of SQL Server and all other system components before production deployment is very important.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. Who performs what roles? It's a big team, we have Product managers, UX team, DevOps, scrum teams, architects, engineers performing various roles.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52