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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems.

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Best Web Performance Books to Learn Site Speed Optimization

MachMetrics

If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. If these rules can be applied to improving speeds at Yahoo! High Performance Images: Shrink, Load, and Deliver Images for Speed. Let’s get started! and the Head Performance Engineer at Google.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Optimizing your Kubernetes clusters without breaking the bank

Dynatrace

Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning. The post Optimizing your Kubernetes clusters without breaking the bank appeared first on Dynatrace blog. The Akamas approach.

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Toward a Better Quality Metric for the Video Community

The Netflix TechBlog

This tech blog highlights our recent progress toward this goal. For more background information, interested readers may refer to our first and second tech blogs on VMAF. In the rest of this blog, we highlight three other areas of recent development, as our efforts toward making VMAF a better quality metric for the community. *The

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Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization

Percona

In this post, we will discuss some important kernel parameters that can affect database server performance and how these should be tuned. You need to set a value of vm.dirty_background_bytes depending on your disk speed. You can tune the difference between the two ratios depending on your disk IO load. SHMMAX / SHMALL.

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