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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In reality, only highly scalable RUM solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools must sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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.”

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload. 4.22 %usr 38.40