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

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Pointer Lock.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Briefly, WAL requires that all the transaction log records associated with a ​​ particular ​​ data page be flushed to stable media before the data page itself can be flushed to stable media. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Budgets are scaled to a benchmark network & device. media="(min-width: 990px)"> <source srcset="img@tablet.png, img@tablet-2x.png 2x". media="(min-width: 750px)"> <img srcset="img@mobile.png, img@mobile-2x.png 2x". Deciding what benchmark to use for a performance budget is crucial. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Read Retry When a read from stable media returns an error, ​​ the read operation is ​​ tried ​​ again. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). compared to early 2015.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145