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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Scaling and Capacity Planning

Percona

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0 Virtual Memory utilization was averaging 48 GB of RAM.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Source code tests.

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Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

If you haven’t done so already, providing a testing environment for developers to easily test their functions with AWS solves most of these challenges and makes the required tooling similar to what’s required for operating microservices. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

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HammerDB v4.9 New Feature: Accelerate SQL Server builds with BCP

HammerDB

BCP based load Now when we select the “Use BCP Option” We can see that we are now using an insert bulk command (although the item table being fixed at 100K rows and loaded by the monitor virtual user continues to use regular inserts). We thank @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis for this excellent contribution to HammerDB.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 This explains, in part , how PostgreSQL performed better out of the box for this test workload. The throughput didn’t double but increased by 57%.

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5 Must-Have Features of Top Synthetic Monitoring Tools

Rigor

Reading time 8 min There are many different classes of web performance tools, from synthetic monitoring to application performance monitoring ( APM) , to real user monitoring ( RUM ), and more. Can you manually edit recorded tests or do you need to completely re-record? Here is a checklist to help get you started: 1.