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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. For the network, we can use Iperf to assess the network bandwidth between the client and the database server to ensure it will be enough to meet our peak requirement.

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Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. This means that, compared to running a regular web server, there are virtually no costs while users are not interacting with your site. Auto scaling.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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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Common use-cases for AWS Lambda in the enterprise (and how to get observability for them)

Dynatrace

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. This means that, compared to running a regular web server, there are virtually no costs while users are not interacting with your site. Auto scaling.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

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. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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.

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