Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., Here the first finding was that the current strategy for determining when to hand-off has a 25% probability of worsening your link performance after handover. Application performance. SIGCOMM’20.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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n0derunner

DECEMBER 18, 2018

How to improve large DB read performance by 2X. In our experiment we deliberately size the active working-set to NOT fit into the metadata cache. On the same hardware with AES enabled – the time is cut in half. Additionally AES reduces the need to cache metadata in DRAM since local access is so fast.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. Expect closer to 75ms. Routing: If you are using a CDN—and you should be!—a

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Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. Final Thoughts: Monitoring Performance from the Great Firewall of China.

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CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Cache-Headers missing?

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Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

Moving this site to Eleventy and Netlify has been a great way to improve the performance of the deployed end-product, which was reason enough to make the switch. There's work in progress to make incremental builds possible for 11ty, but until then, the speed of a full build is the speed at which changes are visible. MiB | 2.99

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Let’s take a look at some of these capabilities.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

The Solution: Distributed Caching. A widely used technology called distributed caching meets this need by storing frequently accessed data in memory on a server farm instead of within a database. This speeds up accesses and updates while offloading back-end database servers. Let’s take a look at some of these capabilities.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2). In this second part, we will zoom in on the performance improvements that QUIC and HTTP/3 bring to the table for web-page loading. HTTP/3 performance features ( current article ). A Primer on Speed. Robin Marx.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. The current state-of-the-art Python compiler, pypy , often yields around a 2x improvement in performance (and sometimes less).

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.” Description.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. The business-critical tier has local SSD which provide much better IO performance with max data IOPS ranging from 8000 for a 2 vCore database up to 204,800 for an 80 vCore database. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 14, 2019

When a side-channel is based on observing improved performance, a solution that removes the improved performance can work, but is clearly undesirable. The paper sets out what we can do in software given today’s hardware, and along the way also highlights areas where cooperation from hardware will be needed in the future.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. Cross-region replication allows us to distribute data across the world for redundancy and speed. ”

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KeyCDN

JULY 11, 2019

Image Optimization Importance We have been talking a lot about website optimization lately and have interviewed many web performance experts to get their recommendations and advice. Here are just a few of their responses: A big focus for our performance team is (and will continue to be) optimizing images. You guessed it, images.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. This cache is often supported by a battery-powered backup facility.

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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). For single or very small numbers of predictions, Raven is faster due to SQL Server’s caching. " Query execution.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. For high performance OLTP SQL Server workloads, the memory optimized type of Azure VMs is usually the best choice.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? On one of the themes that captures my imagination, how changing hardware platform influence system design: Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks. The authors claim a two orders-of-magnitude performance improvement. What’s their secret???

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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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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

What I find is very similar to backups: No DBCC CHECKDBs performed at all DBCC CHECKDBs being performed only on select databases DBCC CHECKDBs last performed months or years ago. Performing index maintenance by removing fragmentation from your indexes is still important. Index Maintenance.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In this particular investigation, which spanned twenty months, we suspected hardware failure, compiler bugs, linker bugs, and other possibilities. Jumping too quickly to blaming hardware or build tools is a classic mistake, but in this case the mistake was that we weren’t thinking big enough. Or did we just get lucky or oblivious?

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake. Apache Arrow's in-memory columnar layout is specifically optimized for data locality for better performance on modern hardware like CPUs and GPUs.

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 2, 2019

In this context it means there are no external dependencies on e.g. secrets, trusted hardware modules, or special instructions (e.g. Then the verifier selects a random nonce and sends it to the system with a challenge to perform a (very!) The word “unconditionally” from the paper title is also highly significant here.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

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John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In recent years the trend has been to increase core-level performance by the use of SIMD vector instructions, and to increase package-level performance by the addition of more and more cores. The core does not have enough load bandwidth to perform all of these extra load operations at full speed.

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