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.

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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

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 177

Virtualization Benchmarking Best Practices Cloud 177

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.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 106

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) and partners) and in the process, stifling the upstarts, the truly open source little folks dreaming big. (Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

The inspiration (and title) for it comes from Mike Loukides’ Radar article on Real World Programming with ChatGPT , which shares a similar spirit of digging into the potential and limits of AI tools for more realistic end-to-end programming tasks. Setting the Stage: Who Am I and What Am I Trying to Build?

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The process model, user-kernel interactions, dynamic linking, and memory management concerns are all in scope, and the protection spans the OS/DBMS boundary. And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. code is not given access to excessive capabilities. Evaluation.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

These techniques work well for scientific programs that are dominated by arrays. However, they are ineffective on object-based programs because objects do not fall neatly into fixed-size blocks and have a more irregular layout. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below.

Cache 61

Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

The Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning paper that we looked at last time out contained this passing comment coupled with a link to today’s paper choice: It is known from prior work that such [functional] languages offer natural advantages in program synthesis. That certainly caught my interest. High-level approach.

Programming 56

Programming Benchmarking Testing Systems 56

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Partners across the globe leverage Netflix device certification process on a continual basis to ensure that quality products and experiences are delivered to their customers. The certification process involves the verification of partner’s implementation of features provided by the Netflix SDK. Detect a regression in a test case.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 8, 2018

coaching by the engineering manager, development programs, interest groups). Performance can be divided into two types: process performance (e.g. test-driven development, pair programming, continuous delivery) and outcome performance (e.g. They set a higher benchmark for themselves.

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Performance Benchmarking Energy Engineering 45

Alex Russell

JULY 9, 2013

A friend called out to me a peculiar feature of a conference Program Committee they were serving on: that it was part of the PC’s role to keep a look out for strong minority/female speakers and encourage them to submit to the open CFP. But on we plod. That was intentional.

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Benchmarking Programming Engineering Technology 40

HammerDB

MARCH 25, 2023

using existing tables (188,416 KB) SETTING CONFIGURATION Database set to MariaDB Benchmark set to TPC-C for MariaDB. /scripts/tcl/maria/tprocc/maria_tprocc.sh BUILD HAMMERDB SCHEMA +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- HammerDB CLI v4.7 TMP/hammer.DB TMP/hammer.DB TMP/hammer.DB TMP/hammer.DB

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C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 83

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. The schema build is the same process whether built from the GUI or the CLI. We recommend the following book as a comprehensive reference to TCL : TCL Programming Language by Ashok P. dbset db command.

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Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

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. This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? puts "Processing $total_iterations transactions without output suppressed."

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

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.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Tasktop

JULY 22, 2021

Are they meeting their benchmarks for adoption, are their outcomes improving, are the KPIs different? Flow Efficiency – Is waste decreasing in our processes? Flow Predictability is measured via the SAFe Program Predictability Measure (PPM) (see Figure 10 below). They want to know how they’re doing,” said Dean.

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Metrics DevOps Efficiency Benchmarking 98

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This simplifies debugging and analysis processes by enabling users to execute the same query. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash Capture Actual Parameters in the Queries : pg_stat_monitor allows you to choose if you want to see queries with placeholders for parameters or actual parameter data.

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 120

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We also published our benchmarks for research purposes. The paper contains carefully crafted benchmarks, but I came up with a fun one for this blog post which I call “fizzbuzz” Let us go through all integers in sequence and count how many are divisible by 3 and how many are divisible by 5. It tells a nice story.

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

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. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier. Be sure to check it out if your dev process needs a creative kick in the pants. Pick your favorites based on the brief descriptions below, or take a look through them all. Visit website 12. Visit website 19.

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Development Website Design Code 75

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis can be configured to optimally utilize both RDB and AOF persistence methods optimally, achieving a balance between speed and data safety while minimizing the impact on response times due to its child process handling for disk writes. Scalable reads across multiple instances are possible. step in to simplify this task.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The study is conducted using a suite of 7 real-world popular scientific applications, and two well-established benchmark suites: Miniaero solves the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. PARSEC is a set of benchmarks for multi-threaded programs. is a set of benchmarks for parallel computing developed by NASA.

Benchmarking 101

Benchmarking Hardware Programming Code 101

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the realm of cloud-based business operations, there is an increasing dependence on complex information processing patterns. To this vital function is workload automation which optimizes scheduling, execution, and monitoring processes for each individual task or process within cloud-based workflows.

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. Gartner estimates that less than half of enterprise-generated data is now created and processed in data centers or the cloud.

Infrastructure 177

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 177

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? I logged into one and went through some basic CLI tools to get started (my [60s checklist]). top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Safeguarding information privacy must be taken very seriously as any processing entrusted to outside suppliers could become a cause for concern. This automation of processes allows more time dedicated to fulfilling core tasks efficiently without any extra effort required on your part.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here’s some predictions I’m making: Jack Dongarra’s efforts to highlight the low efficiency of the HPCG benchmark as an issue will influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et. petaflops, which is 0.8%

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

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. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

It is essentially a set of instructions or a program that is executed automatically in response to specific events or actions occurring within the database. Completion of Trigger : Once the trigger’s code is executed for one row, it proceeds to the next affected row (if any) and repeats the process. What is a Trigger in MySQL?

Cache 60

Cache Database Games Healthcare 60

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? I logged into one and went through some basic CLI tools to get started (my 60s checklist ). top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Programming Languages. When you download the source code for HammerDB you can see that the programming language it is written in is called TCL. The following diagram illustrates the process. program in TCL. #!/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.6 The GUI or command line interface is then started. usr/local/bin/tclsh8.6

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? I logged into one and went through some basic CLI tools to get started (my [60s checklist]). top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40