Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

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

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise. Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. A Web as Meta-Platform endgame requires that the platform continues to improve in expressive capacity.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. We applied the following settings for both benchmarks to make it easier to stress the system.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. With all of this in mind, I thought improving the speed of my own version of a slow site would be a fun exercise. But those are things I did in image editing software.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Network 92

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

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. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40