KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Measurements refer to specific data points, such as the number of seconds it takes to process a request. Memory utilization: The amount of memory required to process a request.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Effective management of memory stores with policies like LRU/LFU proactive monitoring of the replication process and advanced metrics such as cache hit ratio and persistence indicators are crucial for ensuring data integrity and optimizing Redis’s performance. This plays a crucial role in supervising the replication process.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. innodb_file_per_table.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This means that multiple partitions can be processed simultaneously, making better use of available hardware resources and further enhancing query performance. Special considerations are needed to ensure these processes still work seamlessly after partitioning. Documentation : Always be documenting!

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

Prior to SQL Server 2012, the maximum server memory value only applied to the bufferpool, so customers needed to limit the amount of memory the bufferpool could use to save memory for the operating system and other processes. Part of that process is his Index Optimize procedure, which can take additional parameters to update statistics.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. (Yes

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These data pipelines can process data at petabytes scale and to some extent, their success can be attributed to an army of engineers devoted to build and maintain internal data pipelines. Depending on frameworks, data processing units (a.k.a A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

VoltDB

MAY 2, 2017

because they want to use a lower k- factor (even 0) on the replica cluster to lower hardware costs. Recovery time can vary depending on the amount of data, the number of nodes, the hardware, and the number of indexes and views in the schema. This time, however, you can avoid any loss of data by using a controlled cutover process.

Hardware 40

Hardware Database Servers Tuning 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. ​​ This is a serious I/O subsystem problem that should be addressed immediately to avoid SQL Server and overall system stability problems ​​ and ​​ data loss.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

There seems to be broad agreement that hyperautomation is the combination of Robotic Process Automation with AI. We’ll see it in the processing of the thousands of documents businesses handle every day. We can certainly apply the slogan to many, if not all, clerical tasks–and even to the automation process itself.

Games 116

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is a bit more difficult to explain, because it depends on the physical properties of the medium (for example, the used frequency of radio waves), the number of users on the network, and also the devices that interconnect different subnetworks (because they typically can only process a certain number of packets per second). Did You Know?

Performance 105

Performance Network Latency Servers 105