Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. A Look at MyRocks Performance. Why MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers Are Bad For Performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

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Rigor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One free tool has become prominent in the space – Google Lighthouse – and one question often bubbles up: “I use Google Lighthouse for one-off snapshots of my site’s performance, so why do I need a performance monitoring solution?” Google Lighthouse is a great place to start for performance analysis.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40