Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. It collects various statistics data such as query statistics, query plan, SQL comments, and other performance insights. The collected data is aggregated and presented in a single view.

Benchmarking 120

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 120

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

This was a keynote presentation at the “2nd International Workshop on Performance Modeling: Methods and Applications” (PMMA16), June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany (in conjunction with ISC16 ). This data is from the 2007 presentation.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Service-level objectives (SLOs) are key to the SRE role; they are agreed-upon performance benchmarks that represent the health of an application or service. SREs need SLOs to measure and monitor performance, but many organizations lack the automation and intelligence to streamline data.

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Artificial Intelligence Benchmarking DevOps Engineering 220

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Iroro Orife , Chih-Wei Wu and Yun-Ning (Amy) Hung Introduction When you enjoy the latest season of Stranger Things or Casa de Papel (Money Heist) , have you ever wondered about the secrets to fantastic story-telling, besides the stunning visual presentation? What constitutes music or speech?

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Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

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

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

CSS Wizardry

JUNE 30, 2023

I never thought I’d write an article in defence of DOMContentLoaded , but here it is… For many, many years now, performance engineers have been making a concerted effort to move away from technical metrics such as Load , and toward more user-facing, UX metrics such as Speed Index or Largest Contentful Paint. performance. performance.

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Metrics Google Monitoring Analytics 326

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

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! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. The agent watches as each process loads a file or makes a call to a certain function that is performed by an open-source library. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 241

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 12, 2022

It was a lot of fun, and the work was appreciated, so a few months before the console shipped I got a present from the leadership of the project – an entire silicon wafer of Xbox 360 CPUs! Back in the day I wrote a lot of benchmarks in order to look for places where the actual performance of the CPU didn’t match what we expected.

Cache 126

Cache Latency Benchmarking Hardware 126

Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Labeling your pages in your synthetic and real user monitoring (RUM) tools is a crucial step in your performance monitoring setup. Page labels give you the ability to: Compare and benchmark similar pages across different sites. Create more meaningful performance budgets in RUM. Benchmark Dashboard from SpeedCurve.

Benchmarking 57

Benchmarking Best Practices Monitoring Traffic 57

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. These crucial elements act as conductors in a symphony, coordinating the performance of all aspects related to cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

December 2 1pm-2pm CMP 326-R Capacity Management Made Easy with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Vadim Filanovsky , Senior Performance Engineer & Anoop Kapoor, AWS Abstract :Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a hands-free capacity management experience to help customers maintain a healthy fleet, improve application availability, and reduce costs.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 112

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 112

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

Despite advances in browser tooling , automated evaluation , lab tools , guidance , and runtimes , however, teams struggle to deliver even decent performance with today's popular frameworks. What is Performance? It may seem a silly question, but what is performance, exactly?

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 7, 2019

Occasionally I hear some chatter about performance budgets “not working.” It’s not really about the performance budget, though. It’s not really about the performance budget, though. To be effective, a performance budget has to be concrete, meaningful, integrated, and enforced.

Performance 64

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Design 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2020

As a part of the “ Release better software faster ” breakout track at Perform Las Vegas 2020 , I’ll be presenting a session concentrating on deployment models and how to reduce risk and iterate faster. Using the Davis assistant for comparison and benchmarking. Dynatrace news. Customer story.

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Performance Benchmarking Innovation DevOps 34

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It's a pretty common need in real life; it's simple to describe, and it's quite easy to solve with reasonable performance using a cursor-based solution. When Peter sends me a puzzle, I typically respond with a suggested solution, and he usually comes up with a better-performing, brilliant solution. It will be used as a benchmark.

C++ 133

C++ Code Benchmarking Performance 133

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Over time we are seeing more applications with more complex physics and simulation characteristics so HPCG is becoming more relevant as a benchmark.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. We’re talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this can have a considerable performance impact when cold starts occur too often. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda. When using a platform, it always helps to have a rough idea of its inner workings.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 210

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. Expanding the GUI menu presents the workflow with our first task of building the schema. Selecting schema build and options presents the schema build options dialog. dbset db command. dbset bm command.

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Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. This is as it should be.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. Fully audited configurations would require multiple racks of I/O capacity to reach maximum CPU performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Establish a performance baseline and then go performance first.

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Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Performance Cache Network Metrics 145