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.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

This strategy is exemplified by 1990s-era Andreesen's goal to render Windows "a poorly debugged set of device drivers" The idea is that the web is where the action is, and that the browser winning more user Jobs To Be Done follows from increasing the web platform's capability. In some sense it's a confidence-management exercise.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. For example, real-user monitoring metrics might reveal a user performance issue that you can then apply to synthetic testing to replicate the issue by exercising the same transaction across several different variables. RUM generates a lot of data. The bottom line?

Best Practices 166

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 166

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. Ilya Grigorik wrote an excellent article with strategies for compressing text-based assets.

Cache 92

Cache Social Media Media Website 92