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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Benchmarking Checklist

Brendan Gregg

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Don't do it. Do it less.

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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Benchmarking Checklist

Brendan Gregg

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Don't do it. Do it less.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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Fixing a slow site iteratively

CSS - Tricks

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates.

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A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing)

John McCalpin

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. For 64-bit floating-point data, the 512-bit Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) instructions performs 16 floating-point operations (8 adds and 8 multiplies).

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