The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

HammerDB

MAY 6, 2021

Percona Live ONLINE, THE Open Source Database Conference, is taking place May 12-13, 2021. This year Steve Shaw will be presenting HammerDB: A better Way to Benchmark Your Open Source Database on Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 13.30-14.30

Open Source 52

Open Source Benchmarking Database Website 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We used the first processor socket for the MySQL database and the second socket for the benchmark (sysbench or HammerDB).

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

It’s important to ensure the bells and whistles of any software-as-a-service (SaaS) they offer can support where you aim to take your business, keeping your strategy tight and on track. Choosing the right tech and plans from your cloud provider means ensuring they fit well with what you’re already doing and where you plan to head.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

The TPC Council recently announced that the TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source projects GitHub repository. The TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source project’s Github repository. The first step towards this goal is the recently announced move of the HammerDB source code to the TPC-Council GitHub repository.

Code 48

Code Benchmarking Open Source Website 48

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. While you are on 5.7, Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Cache 98

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 98

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important? I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle. Wednesday?—?December

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables. Percona XtraBackup is a 100% open source backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL that performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transactional systems.

Cache 83

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 83

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements. It supports native sharding.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost. slower to 9.8%

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. We use Spinnaker to deploy instances and host the API containers on Titus ?—?which

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For evidence, I refer you to the research that we recently published in which 62% of CISOs told us that container runtime environments have negatively impacted their ability to detect and manage software vulnerabilities. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications.

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. And making lists.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more. Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin!

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. Obviously, containerized data workloads have their own challenges. optimised container networking and security.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge 2xlarge c5.2xlarge MySQL 8.0.31

AWS 93

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 93

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry. Security should be an integral part of each stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from development to monitoring in real time. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 237

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 237

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. Even though the job of a software tester is to catch errors committed by developers, software testers themselves are not immune to errors. It’s not about open source vs paid, it’s more about how much it solves your problem.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Querying the data While it is reasonable to create panels showing real-time load in order to explore better the types of queries that can be run against pg_stat_monitor, it is more practical to copy and query the data into tables after the benchmarking has completed its run. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

Benchmarking 119

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 119

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What? 7 Gorgeous Free And Open-Source Typefaces And When To Use Them ,” Noemi Stauffer. “ This is a question that is not easily answered.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. Two benchmarks from users can be found here: [1] [2] 4. One of the key benefits of using PostgreSQL is its reliability, scalability, and performance. Pgpool-II This is where the pgpool-II comes in.

Cache 111

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 111

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

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 104

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Include metrics, event logs, distributed traces, metadata, user experience data, and telemetry data from open source technologies and cloud platforms. But is five nines availability attainable? Each decimal point closer to 100 equals higher uptime.

Infrastructure 188

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 188

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. Connection management — This is the software management related specifically to the networking and connectivity aspect of the database.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 114

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. That’s because once the software environment has been set up (e.g., And ChatGPT didn’t warn me about this.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. 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. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The authors create a benchmark dataset of open-source enterprise applications, including for example the community edition of alfresco (37,163 classes), dotCMS (46,027 classes), shopizer (33,841 classes) and SpringBlog (18,493). JackEE in action.

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80