Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Core Web Vitals Tools To Boost Your Web Performance Scores. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Essentially, a web vital is a quality standard for UX and web performance set by Google. Zara Cooper.

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Performance Benchmarking Website Metrics 130

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is particularly important when running automated workloads back-back to generate a performance profile for a progressively increasing number of virtual users. The history list length that can be queried is the number of undo log pages that contain changes.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our final post, we will put them head-to-head in a detailed feature comparison and compare the results of PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II performance for your PostgreSQL hosting ! However, these must be set up outside the PostgreSQL system, while PgBouncer can offload this to the PostgreSQL server. Performance Testing.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study). Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. For this article, we will focus on the first three and the performance adjustments for these.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. You are now “Head of Performance” at Repairing Magazine, the most serious competitor to Smashing Magazine. Congratulations On Your New Job.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I also compare them with stored procedures, mainly focusing on differences in terms of default optimization strategy, and plan caching and reuse behavior. As you can see in Figure 1, thanks to the fact that the function got inlined, SQL Server was able to create an optimal plan that interacts directly with the underlying base table’s indexes.

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Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. I wanted most of the memory to be available for the file cache, where the compressed SST files will be cached. Now, how does this workload perform on InnoDB?

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CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Site performance is potentially the most important metric. The better the performance, the better chance that users stay on a page, read content, make purchases, or just about whatever they need to do. Here’s the thing: performance is more than a one-off task. billion if the site slowed down by just one second. Lighthouse.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. This allows the app to query a list of “paths” in each HTTP request, and get specially formatted JSON (jsonGraph) that we use to cache the data and hydrate the UI.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Last week we looked at a function shipping solution to the problem; Cloudburst uses the more common data shipping to bring data to caches next to function runtimes (though you could also make a case that the scheduling algorithm placing function execution in locations where the data is cached a flavour of function-shipping too).

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 23, 2019

Coupled with stateless application servers to execute business logic and a database-like system to provide persistent storage, they form a core component of popular data center service archictectures. session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? Generally speaking, we can also run the top command on any server to which we have shell access.

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SQL Performance

MAY 20, 2022

The most important things to understand about server-side parameterization are it doesn’t happen all at once and a final decision to parameterize isn’t made until the end of the process. Imagine someone handing you a query written for an unknown SQL Server database and asking you to identify parameterizable constants.

Cache 55

Cache Database Servers Testing 55

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. The result would be a performance drop in the end users’ experience, often causing the application to become unusable.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

Nothing is impossible; however, the performances will be so impacted that each operation may take seconds instead of milliseconds or a fraction of it unless lifting some of the rules breaks the relational model. This, of course, is unless I can organize my products by country as well, which is a bit unusual nowadays but not impossible.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Last month I explained when SQL Server inlines iTVFs, it applies parameter embedding optimization by default. Parameter embedding means SQL Server replaces parameter references in the query with the literal constant values from the current execution, and then the code with the constants gets optimized. Constant Folding.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

DBAs and developers appreciate its combination of flexibility, scalability, and performance. Customers miss out on the cost-effectiveness, creative freedom, and global community support (for innovation, better performance, and enhanced security) that come with open source solutions and from companies with an open source spirit.

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MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing. Of course, you still won’t see the same loading time every test , so let’s look at some of the reasons why. Every single visitor will be a different distance from the server. We go into more depth on each of them here.

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SQL Performance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When SQL Server reads data under locking read committed isolation (the default for non-cloud offerings) and chooses row-level locking granularity, it normally only locks one row at a time. Rows qualifying for the update must continue to qualify until the change is performed and committed. Locking optimizations. Lock classes.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Some of these methods let you dictate how your server delivers images based on the restraints of your visitors’ browsers. What Is WebP Caching?

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). An extended version of SQL Server, with an integrated ONNX Runtime engine executes the query. pruning).

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of geographically distributed servers that brings web content closer to where end users are located, to ensure high availability, optimized performance and low latency. The result would be a performance drop in the end users’ experience, often causing the application to become unusable.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Strategy Traffic Virtualization 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 106

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. Contact us to learn more!

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

TL;DR: performance budgets are an essential but under-appreciated part of product success and team health. Nobody is trying to do a poor job, and yet the results of a “completed” PWA project often require weeks or months of painstaking rework to deliver minimally acceptable performance. Partner meetings are illuminating.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That is why, today, Web Performance is as important and trendy as having an online presence. Table of Contents: What Is Web Performance? What Is Web Performance? Web performance refers to the speed at which a website loads, how fast it’s downloaded, and how an app is displayed on the user’s browser. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, scrapers could scrape your site to look for security vulnerabilities or exposed contact or sales lead details. When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. Large preview ).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

What you may be overlooking is that peak-event readiness is about more than just load testing or ensuring that your servers are up throughout a specific timeframe. How are you monitoring end-user performance today? Rigor’s free performance report. STEP 2: Use Synthetic Monitoring to Baseline Your Current Performance.

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Website Cache Ecommerce Traffic 74

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, the industry thankfully started paying more attention to performance. As a result, website performance can suffer. Improving performance with the decoupled JSON approach. Improving Performance With The Decoupled JSON Approach. Of course, this is where good planning is crucial. Security concerns.

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