The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. Going further, approximate query processing could also help meet interactivity targets. Rahman et al.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 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. Stable, well-calibrated SLOs pave the way for teams to automate additional processes and testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Software 268

Software Software Benchmarking Latency 268

DZone

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Comparing two strings to see if they’re equal takes processing power, but not all comparisons are the same. In a previous article, we looked at How to compare strings in Go and did some benchmarking. Optimizing string comparisons in Go can improve your application’s response time and help scalability.

Benchmarking 354

Benchmarking Programming Scalability Processing 354

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Application modernization centers on bringing monolithic, on-premises applications — which IT teams usually update and maintain with waterfall development processes — into cloud architecture and release patterns. Document and benchmark existing applications, processes, and services.

Strategy 231

Strategy Benchmarking Serverless Infrastructure 231

Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

Improving data quality is a strategic process that involves all organizational members who create and use data. Additionally, teams should perform continuous audits to evaluate data against benchmarks and implement best practices for ensuring data quality. How can organizations improve data quality?

Government 204

Government Analytics Benchmarking Storage 204

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Using vulnerability management, DevSecOps automation, and attack detection and blocking in your application security process can proactively improve your organization’s overall security posture. Vulnerability management Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, prioritizing, rectifying, and reporting software vulnerabilities.

Best Practices 213

Best Practices Benchmarking Speed Infrastructure 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives. In the past, I tried to understand where in the page-loading process was the majority of time spent. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers.

Retail 225

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 225

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But with many organizations relying on traditional, manual processes to ensure service reliability and code quality, software delivery speed suffers. But according to the 2023 DevOps Automation Pulse , only 56% of end-to-end DevOps processes are automated. The report describes the various benchmarks that constitute each stage in depth.

DevOps 210

DevOps Benchmarking Azure Innovation 210

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

As more organizations respond to the pressure to release better software faster, there is an increasing need to build quality gates into every stage of BizDevOps processes , from early development to deployment. Automating quality gates creates reliable checks and balances and speeds up the process by avoiding manual intervention.

Benchmarking 187

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 187

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

This, in turn, accelerates the need for businesses to implement the practice of software automation to improve and streamline processes. Automate DevSecOps processes at scale. Software is behind most of our human and business interactions. We also discuss the role of AI for IT operations (AIOps) and more. What is software analytics?

Software 192

Software Software Analytics Big Data 192

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 58

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 58

Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2022

In addition, it frees up critical development resources to focus on more innovative tasks and optimizing processes. Automation combined with self-service also allows teams to apply additional rigor, scale, and independence to the testing and validation process.

DevOps 213

DevOps Benchmarking Cloud Monitoring 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Additionally, include benchmarks for stakeholders and best practices that support the anticipated growth of the organization as a whole. Motivating teams to take action Developers need the freedom to “fail fast” and take risks without worrying about cloud costs to improve continuous integration and continuous delivery processes.

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Cloud Strategy Retail Energy 200

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this blog post, we will introduce speech and music detection as an enabling technology for a variety of audio applications in Film & TV, as well as introduce our speech and music activity detection (SMAD) system which we recently published as a journal article in EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.

Architecture 224

Architecture Energy Benchmarking Processing 224

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

We decided to run a few benchmarks to understand how the thread pool affects long-running transactions. The thread pool dispatcher seems to be the bottleneck and is highly affected by the execution time of queries being processed, even if forcing a reconnection. For this reason, I’ve set up a server with the following specs: r6a.2xlarge

Benchmarking 84

Benchmarking Servers Tuning C++ 84

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You can even go one step further and integrate your performance budgets with your CI/CD process, so that you not only get alerts but even break the build if a new deploy would violate any of your budgets. Integrating your budgets with your CI process is like having your security cameras trigger your guards to rush in and stop the bad guys.

Benchmarking 64

Benchmarking Metrics Website Monitoring 64

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria that a service must meet before it is advanced to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. In other words, 90% of organizations either rely on manual quality checks or, even more risky, rely only on hope!

Cloud 242

Cloud DevOps Benchmarking Speed 242

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unfortunately, the performance in benchmarks is almost the same as for 4KB pages. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information. Setup I recommend starting with 2MB huge pages because it’s trivial to set up.

C++ 97

C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 97

Dynatrace

JUNE 2, 2022

By applying software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure practices, SRE enables organizations to streamline and automate IT processes. Integrating these developers with the design process provides insight that enables architects to incorporate reliability from day one.

DevOps 147

DevOps Innovation Engineering Benchmarking 147

Dynatrace

MARCH 25, 2022

He and his team thought, “Why can’t these issues be solved autonomously with a platform that has information about these processes?” “We wanted to fully automate process restarts based on bad trending as opposed to waiting for problems to occur,” Hood explains.

Benchmarking 175

Benchmarking Efficiency DevOps Tuning 175

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The kubectl-flame container has the hostPID option enabled, and this provides visibility of the underlying Kubernetes node process ID namespace to collect system events from running processes on the host. In the following example, we’ll see how to manually run perf on a mysqld process inside a Kubernetes pod.

Code 109

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 109

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Crafting Your Multi-Cloud Blueprint Formulating a comprehensive multi-cloud framework is an intricate process that requires a business’s specific requirements, choosing suitable cloud services, and optimizing for performance and affordability. Getting security right in a multi-cloud setup means doing a few key things.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

HammerDB

APRIL 4, 2023

2023-04-04 11:27:29.650 GMT [3555] LOG: redirecting log output to logging collector process 2023-04-04 11:27:29.650 GMT [3555] HINT: Future log output will appear in directory "log". Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser hammerdb@REDPOLL:~$ /home/hammerdb/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /home/hammerdb/pgsql/data start waiting for server to start.2023-04-04

Benchmarking 84

Benchmarking Database Metrics Code 84

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

First, the company uses synthetic monitoring to develop user experience benchmarks and determine if applications are performing within expected thresholds. As Voorhies notes, achieving effective DEM means creating a reliable and repeatable process for success. To achieve this goal, seamless and omnichannel user experiences are key.

Mobile 170

Mobile Monitoring Benchmarking Best Practices 170

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0 Headline results. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

JANUARY 21, 2021

For questions regarding the process of registering or paying for Perform 2021 HOT, contact the Dynatrace University Program Team here. You’ll learn how to understand application usage patterns, infrastructure consumption, service dependencies, benchmarking performance and ensuring service levels, and enabling modern operations.

Virtualization 187

Virtualization Benchmarking Best Practices Cloud 187

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2019

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Dynatrace news. Checking out of a retail site. Contact forms. Pricing calculators.

Monitoring 164

Monitoring Retail Benchmarking Tuning 164

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases. Throughput: The throughput of an application is directly influenced by the speed at which the database can process and serve queries.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

These solutions provide performance metrics for applications, with specific insights into the statistics, such as the number of transactions processed by the application or the response time to process such transactions. APM products form a baseline for these metrics and monitor the applications for any variance from the baseline.”

Artificial Intelligence 235

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Infrastructure Cloud 235

n0derunner

JANUARY 12, 2021

pgbench paramaters for concurrency control pgbench offers two parameters for controlling the concurrency in the benchmark. j, --jobs=NUM number of threads (default: 1) -c for ‘clients’ The number of “postgres” processes to run. -c, Namely: -j for ‘jobs’ The number of pgbench threads to run. -j,

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking C++ Database Processing 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Testing made easy An equally critical aspect of the database migration process is testing the migrated database to ensure everything will function correctly and no data will be lost or corrupted. This means they can ensure that every possible scenario is tested, from data integrity checks to performance benchmarks.

Database 82

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 82

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search. Application security products and processes, however, have not kept up with advances in software development. Bridgecrew is the cloud security platform for developers. Try it today!

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Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100