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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

DevSecOps and ITOps teams can then perform tasks with accuracy at the speed a business requires. Additionally, software analytics enhances the digital customer experience by enabling faster service for high-quality offerings. The core benefits of an AIOps-automated software analytics platform include the following: Infrastructure monitoring.

Software 187

Software Software Analytics Big Data 187

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint.

Metrics 326

Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 7. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

That meant I started having regular meetings with the hardware engineers who were working with IBM on the CPU which gave me even more expertise on this CPU, which was critical in helping me discover a design flaw in one of its instructions , and in helping game developers master this finicky beast. I wrote a lot of benchmarks.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 175

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 175

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) For example, benchmarks. As an analogy, a car's dashboard is a collection of observability tools that let you understand how the car is operating (speed, rpm, temperature). Observability: The ability to observe.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? The GNU General Public License v3.0

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A lot of the time it’s a front-end developer or head of engineering, but more and more I’m finding myself in great conversations with product leaders. Synthetic is great for trending over time, especially when looking at the number and size of requests (images, JavaScript, CSS), which collectively have a big impact on speed.

Performance 143

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Monitoring 143

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. In fact, in our recent CISO research, 28% of CISOs told us that application teams sometimes bypass these types of tests to speed up delivery. Why is container security tricky? Remove privileges.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Google has a pretty tight grip on the tech industry: it makes by far the most popular browser with the best DevTools, and the most popular search engine, which means that web developers spend most of their time in Chrome, most of their visitors are in Chrome, and a lot of their search traffic will be coming from Google. You Will Need….

Network 225

Network Mobile Performance Traffic 225

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fighting regressions should be the top priority of anyone who cares about the speed of their site. Benchmark your site against your competitors Our public-facing Industry Benchmarks dashboard gets a lot of visits, but did you know you can create your own custom competitive benchmarking dashboard in SpeedCurve?

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 62

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

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. > Speed Index (Synthetic). Speed Index was an important metric when it first came out several years ago. Is it loading?

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

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 ).

Mobile 133

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 133

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. We have a number of SpeedCurve users who want an ongoing understanding of how popular Japanese websites perform, so we added Japan to our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks dashboard. The Five Pillars of Performance Engineering at Insider.

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This task is carried out by a team of over 100 engineers, and for each new kernel, the effort can also take 6-18 months.”. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These vendors serve data center players and offer advanced options, such as ScaleGrid’s engine, which ensures that different elements work well together automatically, eliminating the need for manual effort in managing heterogeneous environments. This also aids scalability down the line.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Engineering is the discipline of designing solutions under specific constraints. In a departure from years prior, I'm going to use a unified network estimate (see below).

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Also, we find a difference in execution on InnoDB and MyISAM engines. sec) In this InnoDB engine, we can see that it requires some time to get COUNT(*) and COUNT(val_no_null) of rows for the table, and as we will see further, MyiSAM is significantly faster compared to InnoDB table in the sense of getting an answer for COUNT(*).

Cache 74

Cache Engineering Storage Speed 74

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Site speed & SEO go hand in hand. Speed Up Your Site. Web Performance In Action. Designing for Performance.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

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. doubles the speed and adds a lot of features to the existing CXL2.0 petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) For example, benchmarks. As an analogy, a car's dashboard is a collection of observability tools that let you understand how the car is operating (speed, rpm, temperature). Some people abbreviate it as o11y.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 40

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. Each partition holds data that falls within a specific range, optimizing data handling and query speed. You want to ensure that table lookups go to the correct partition or group of partitions. Additionally, MySQL 8.0

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 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). The reason is that the simplification of the code allows the context sensitivity policy to keep greater precision.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

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. Speed Index. Start render under 1000ms.

Performance 45

Performance Benchmarking Metrics Media 45

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness. It is a good idea to run sysbench or another benchmark tool to determine your storage throughput.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

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. Here is our (ever-growing!) Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. An SSR application will generally have templating engines that inject the variables into an HTML when given to the client. Data-loading patterns are one way you can optimize your applications’ speed.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Engineers and managers on these teams universally want to deliver great experiences and have many questions about how to approach common challenges. Thankfully, much of what once needed hand-debugging by browser engineers has become automated and self-serve thanks to those collaborations. Management Attributes #.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86