Percona

MARCH 7, 2019

The customer had noticed a linear high CPU usage in one of their MySQL instances and was not able to figure out why as there was no much traffic hitting the app. The server is a small instance: Models | 6xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430 0 @ 2.20GHz 10GB RAM This symptom can be caused by various different reasons. Increase QPS by 2x.

C++ 101

C++ Traffic Servers Monitoring 101

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Server-timing headers are a key tool in understanding what's happening within that black box of Time to First Byte (TTFB). Cue server-timing headers Historically, when looking at page speed, we've had the tendency to ignore TTFB when trying to optimize the user experience. I mean, why wouldn't we?

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Can we adjust our auto-scaling policies to be more efficiency without risking our availability during traffic spikes? Reliability How can we guarantee that a code change will be safe when rolled out to our production environment? Capacity and Efficiency Which resources (clusters, tables, …) are unused or under-utilized and why?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? Aim for that.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more traffic from Africa after doing the optimizations. How would you architecture a non-trivial size web project (client, server, databases, caching layer)? How do you scale it through different servers? Aim for that.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

It increases our visibility and enables us to draw a steady stream of organic (or “free”) traffic to our site. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority. The higher our organic traffic, the more profitable we become as a company.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74