Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

I love conversations about performance, and I'm fortunate enough to have them a lot. I hope this post can serve that purpose and cover a few of the fundamental areas of web performance that I’ve found to be most useful while honing the craft of product management. How is performance measured? The audience varies.

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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 . 3834 2696 .

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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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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. Recently, I spent some time checking on the Performance (not a very detailed study) of the various programming languages. Ahem, Slow!

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

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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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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.

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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.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. DevOps automation is necessary to increase speed and efficiency in the software development pipeline. The report describes the various benchmarks that constitute each stage in depth.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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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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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS.

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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.

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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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Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. Background: How performance budgets work 1. What is a performance budget? What should a performance budget look like? Let's get started!

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Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. Dynatrace news.

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

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.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

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Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 188

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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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Based on survey results gathered during the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference, we learned that just 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gates in their release pipelines. Only 10% of organizations have implemented automatic quality gate validation (Source: Perform 2020 survey). What are quality gates?

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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

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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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis and Memcached both provide high performance with sub-millisecond response times. Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements.

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Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics enables software automation Software analytics enables software automation with targeted machine learning and AI algorithms that mimic the way humans think to perform repetitive tasks. These algorithms analyze massive amounts of complex structured and unstructured data to enhance human decision making and performance.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

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Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

In the past, the answer would be based on the load time of a page, but over the years, we have evolved our approach to site speed to incorporate new metrics, alone or in combination with existing metrics. Today, when asking “how fast,” we need to look at more than load speed and paint metrics and incorporate interactivity and user experience.

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Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

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.

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Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

Many organizations perform release validation tests manually, usually to accommodate an organizational structure that requires a manager’s approval. Often, organizations will have dedicated resources within Quality Assurance to perform these tasks. Automating release validation. Want to learn more?

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DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 214

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.”

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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

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

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?

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Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

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Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

These development and testing practices ensure the performance of critical applications and resources to deliver loyalty-building user experiences. Real user monitoring (RUM) is a performance monitoring process that collects detailed data about users’ interactions with an application. What is real user monitoring?

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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.

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