Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB).

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

DZone

MAY 27, 2019

In my previous post, " Running MySQL/Percona Server in Kubernetes with a Custom Config " I looked at how to set up MySQL in Kubernetes to utilize system resources fully. Today I want to measure if there is any performance overhead of running MySQL in Kubernetes, and show what challenges I faced trying to measure it.

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Performance Benchmarking Servers Systems 154

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

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 107

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

HammerDB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

by @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis to provide accelerated load performance for both SQL Server TPROC-C and TPROC-H schemas. Summary The new Use BCP Option for SQL Server accelerates both TPROC-C and TPROC-H schema loads, so you can get to running your benchmarks faster. With the default for v4.9

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Servers C++ Benchmarking Virtualization 62

SQL Shack

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In this article, we will study in detail about the how SQL Server Index Fill factor works. Index Fill factor SQL Server Index Fill Factor is a percentage value to be filled data page with data in SQL Server. This option is available in index properties to manage data storage in the data pages. It […].

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Servers Performance Storage 56

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. When organizations implement SLOs, they can improve software development processes and application performance. This process includes benchmarking realistic SLO targets based on statistical and probabilistic analysis from Dynatrace.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 262

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

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Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 24, 2022

A thing I see developers do time and time again is make performance-facing changes to their sites and apps, but mistakes in how they measure them often lead to incorrect conclusions about the effectiveness of that work. Problems When Measuring Performance. For example, continuing our task to reduce CSS size: performance.

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Benchmarking Metrics Cache Network 212

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

DZone

MARCH 31, 2020

The true power of cloud computing lies in the way it can be optimized for maximum performance and efficiency. While it wasn’t always possible to run an efficient environment while maximizing performance with on-premise servers and data centers, cloud clusters are particularly flexible in this respect.

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AWS Performance Efficiency Scalability 170

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

TL&DR : Depending on the workload, the thread pool plugin can cause serious performance drops. Two setups running in cluster mode: one in MariaDB+Galera and one with Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona Server+Galera). In each situation, I’ve seen huge drops in the performance where the QPS were going to almost zero.

Benchmarking 87

Benchmarking Servers Tuning C++ 87

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 199

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

JUNE 14, 2019

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Cache 104

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 104

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.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 102

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. High performance compute – Fastest and most powerful CPU virtual machines. VM Image Options. Generation.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

Wait, aren't all performance tools observability tools? For example, benchmarks. When I was a performance consultant I'd show up to random companies who wanted me to fix their computer performance issues. If they trusted me with a login to their production servers, I could help them a lot quicker.

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Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by default, processors work with virtual memory address translation for each 4KB page. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information.

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C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 101

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

When a new node joins the cluster, SST is performed to receive the data from DONOR to the JOINER. The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again.

Cache 88

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 88

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

we also: Launched a series of new and improved dashboards to help you identify and fix your performance issues more quickly and efficiently (More on those below.). Your Home dashboard brings together your Synthetic and RUM data to provide an easy-to-digest – and easy-to-share – snapshot of how your site is performing.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

In a breakout session at Dynatrace Perform 2022, they explained how. Part of incident management is troubleshooting operational bottlenecks that affect overall system performance. “We were able to … fine-tune our systems in a very performant way,” notes Hood. Incident management to avoid outages. ” B2B portal.

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Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 171

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

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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Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer. HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. This enables the user to compare and contrast performance across different benchmark scenarios. include/server -I/opt/postgresql-14.1/include/internal Prior to version 4.3,

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Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

n0derunner

OCTOBER 4, 2019

HammerDB is a great tool for running Database benchmarks. However it is very easy to create an artificial bottleneck which will give a very poor benchmark result. When setting up HammerDB to run against even a moderate modern server, it is important to avoid displaying the client transaction outputs in the HammerDB UI.

Benchmarking 75

Benchmarking Database Servers Performance Testing 75

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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 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.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In these blogs, we dove deep into how the frameworks work, their setup requirements, pros and cons, and how they performed in standby server tests, primary server tests and network isolation tests (split brain scenario) to help you determine the best framework to improve the uptime for your PostgreSQL-powered applications.

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Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

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. Rick Byers.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

With another year winding down, it’s time for us to take stock of how our site performance compares to the average page load times for 2020. As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is.

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

HammerDB

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The reason for reporting both TPM and NOPM performance metrics is for both historical and performance reasons. However as other databases were added they all record TPM in a slightly different way so it wasn’t possible to compare TPM between different database for example Oracle and SQL Server. Therefore NOPM was added.

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Database 40