Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. David will also talk at the Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE) about Performance Engineering and Database Development at MongoDB. Both events would be on April 19, 2021.

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Testing Performance Education 182

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-over-year growth in popularity according to DB-Engines. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Amazon RDS extends support for DLVs across various database engines: MariaDB: 10.6.7 We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. and later v10 versions MySQL: 8.0.28 and later v13 versions, 14.7

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 94

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. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Wednesday?—?December

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which We needed to increase engineering productivity via distributed request tracing. That is the first question our engineering teams asked us when integrating the tracer library.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Site reliability engineering teams often measure system availability in percentages in the pursuit of 100% uptime.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

Java 192

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 192

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. The transparency of open code enhances security as potential vulnerabilities can be identified and patched more quickly by the community.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Memcached Explained: The Simplicity of Caching Alternatively, Memcached, a high-performance, open-source caching solution, prides itself on its simplicity.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. Improving Search Engine Visibility. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known. billion by 2026. Large preview ).

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 134

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies. XtraBackup does not simply behave like a server to access a table object.

Cache 84

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 84

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

Tuning 134

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 134

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements. It supports native sharding.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Benchmark before you decide. innodb_thread_concurrency (Dynamic) – With improvements to the InnoDB engine, it is recommended to allow the engine to control the concurrency by keeping it to the default value (which is zero). Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled. At a minimum, transactions are flushed once per second.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

From an engineering perspective this may be all that you need to know. Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. However a reasonable follow-on question is then why change the name at all? But why is this important?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The authors create a benchmark dataset of open-source enterprise applications, including for example the community edition of alfresco (37,163 classes), dotCMS (46,027 classes), shopizer (33,841 classes) and SpringBlog (18,493). JackEE in action.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Engineers/devs?

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Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. Amazon Aurora is a relational, proprietary, closed-source database engine with all that that implies. Remember that certain MySQL features like the MyISAM storage engine are not available with Amazon Aurora. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. We use Spinnaker to deploy instances and host the API containers on Titus ?—?which

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Sergey Chernyshev.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Setting up PMM on Google Compute Engine in 15 minutes or less.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). It is an open-source front-end library based on JavaScript used in web development for creating interactive components and User Interfaces. Source: moz.com. HTML templating vs JSX.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. To address this, the open source community is now trying to develop Kubernetes custom schedulers specifically optimised for big data workloads. Heron is a real-time, distributed stream processing engine developed at Twitter.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

The funny thing is that, while being far from a startup, Google does indeed have a powerful compression engine in real life called Brotli. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file. This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Steve first experienced performance budgets while Head Performance Engineer at Google. Benchmark a variety of metrics and choose a target of 20% faster or less resources. SpeedCurve's Benchmark dashboard is a great way to see how you compare to your competitors for setting budgets. This is great when doing a responsive redesign.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Whether you want a primer on machine learning, benchmarking, functional programming, developing for the cloud or agile practices, there are articles from reputable contributors that can help you get learning. Toptal Blog Toptal is a marketplace to hire freelance developers so its no wonder they also have a dedicated engineering blog.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This allows your teams baseline, benchmark, review (including retroactively reviewing past data), report, and compare and contrast your data month-over-month or even year-over-year. It’s open source! Why does your engineering team exist?” Even better, Rigor holds that performance data for 2 years.

Google 51

Google Best Practices Energy Website 51