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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

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. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

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.

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 4 – PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II

Scalegrid

It uses only one process which makes it very lightweight. If we require N parallel connections, this forks N child processes. By default, there are 32 child processes that are forked. Pgpool-II defines one process per child process. We cannot control which child process a client connects to. Not supported.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

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.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

Scalegrid

You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. Evaluating factors like hit rate, which assesses cache efficiency level, or tracking key evictions from the cache are also essential elements during the Redis monitoring process.

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