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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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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Large preview ).

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 15–25 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. To optimize storage interally, you could use Dropbox’s new Lepton format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%. In real-world scenarios, most products aren’t even close: a median bundle size today is around 452KB , which is up 53.6%