Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. However, the problem is not always the database itself!

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Most Linux users cannot afford the amount of resource large enterprises like Google put into custom Linux performance tuning… For Google of course, there’s an economy of scale that makes all that effort worth it. On the exact same hardware, the benchmark suite is then used to test 36 Linux release versions from 3.0

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At some later point a SQL query is issued which SELECT s a model and then uses the PREDICT function to generate a prediction from the model given some input data (which is itself of course the result of a query). There are limitations to this model of course. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M The last word.

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. improvement, and the wasm version a 1.4x (here the compute speed-up is offset by the long transmission time to send the input/output images).

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

They now allow users to interact more with the company in the form of online forms, shopping carts, Content Management Systems (CMS), online courses, etc. Hardware resources. It’s crucial for a page to load at considerable speed with all the images, videos, content, and all other elements of the page. Hardware Resources.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For businesses to be more agile and work with an unmatchable speed, cloud testing is crucial. Acknowledging the benefits, businesses across the globe are shifting to cloud-based automation testing to streamline their operations but of course, it comes with more benefits. If we don’t perform with speed, there’s a lot to lose.

Cloud 52

Cloud Testing Testing Tools Small Business 52

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Not as much as we'd like, of course, but the worldwide baseline has changed enormously. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. There are differences, of course, but not where it counts. Recall that single-core performance most directly translates into speed on the web. Talk about a hard target. Reliance Jio, mostly.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. India's speed test medians are moving quickly, but variance is orders-of-magnitude wide, with 5G penetration below 25% in the most populous areas.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We help Supercell to quickly develop, deploy, and scale their games to cope with varying numbers of gamers accessing the system throughout the course of the day. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables. Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus.

C++ 80

C++ Database Storage Testing 80

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The key goals of OLTP applications are availability, speed, concurrency, and recoverability. speeds up scans, . Of course, there’s always more that can be said. The following results highlight that, depending upon the type of table used, it can become important when hardware resource and server costs are a consideration: SQL .

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. Don't like the consequences?

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!),

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2017

But groundbreaking digital business models need pioneers: creators, forward-looking thinkers and inventors who don't hesitate to leave the beaten path, embody ownership, and who understand how to translate customers' wishes into superb new products, services and solutions that evolve with speed.

Social Media 84

Social Media Retail Automotive Innovation 84

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. It is physically limited by the speed of light or, practically, how fast signals can travel in wires or in the open air. also “only” take two round trips ((b) is rarely shown).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

KeyCDN

JULY 2, 2020

This language would have to exist regardless of hardware, location, culture, political beliefs, etc. This reduces file size and increases loading speed both of which also reduce hosting costs.Fonts, colors, and other design elements can easily be changed by modifying one sheet rather than editing whole pages.

Internet 56

Internet Internet Best Practices Website 56

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

In each quantum of time, hardware and OS vendors press ahead, adding features. As OS and hardware deployed base integrate these components, the set of what most computers can do is expanded. This is often determined by hardware integration and device replacement rates. Same with IDEs and developer tools. Same with utilities.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

And, of course, it is designed to minimise the blast radius of any failures that do occur. When a node joins or re-joins a cell it needs to be brought up to speed, a process the authors call teaching. Physalia is designed to offer consistency and high-availability, even under network partitions. Physalia in the large.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

All Things Distributed

JUNE 28, 2017

The body and hardware still reflect HARTING's standard of perfection. That's how you gain speed and quickly digitize old machines and connect them to the cloud within a manageable cost framework. All in all, HARTING has become faster. Taking the dread out of mistakes. Praise the value of learning.

Innovation 113

Innovation Website Servers Technology 113

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

SQL provides a declarative programming interface, below which the system itself can figure out the most effective execution plans based on data size and statistics, layout, compute hardware etc. Once a library of UDFs have been built up of course, they could be reused across computations. Be careful what you ask for (materialize).

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44

CSS - Tricks

AUGUST 18, 2020

When even a bit of React can be a problem on devices slow and fast alike, using it is an intentional choice that effectively excludes people with low-end hardware. I believe this range of mobile hardware will be illustrative of performance across a broad spectrum of device capabilities, even if it’s slightly heavy on the Apple side.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

JavaScript is the single most expensive part of any page in ways that are a function of both network capacity and device speed. Thankfully, this is somewhat easier than network speeds: more than half of American mobile users are on Android devices. Performance isn’t the (entire) product, of course. Global Ground-Truth.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Of course, with as much textual data as we have we are leveraging Lucene/SOLR (a NoSQL solution) for Search and Semantic processing. We have been able to meet our goal of architecting our application for 0% "maintenance downtime" Out of the box, RDS CloudWatch data and graphs speed up the troubleshooting process.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 19, 2020

Humans can of course work in teams, with a structure resembling that of the system itself , so I’m not saying everything must fit in a single mind, but each of the pieces that need to be understood as a whole do need to. Go overdrawn (i.e., In a fast changing world, the effort needed to keep up to date can be daunting.

C++ 50

C++ Systems Software Software 50

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

You can of course also do this manually just using the <img> element directly. From Speed at Scale with Katie Hempenius and I at Google I/O. Device Pixel Ratio (DPR) represents how a CSS pixel is translated to physical pixels on a hardware screen. DRM-free, of course. We’ll cover this later. Large preview ).

Media 145

Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Time to First Byte (TTFB), DOM Content Loaded, Start Render, Speed Index) — but from the experience of the user. LCP is supposed to measure loading performance and is a good proxy for all the old metrics we in the performance community used to use (i.e.

Google 140

Google Metrics Mobile Analytics 140

SQL Performance

MARCH 8, 2021

This uses hardware, typically a crystal oscillator, that produces ticks at a very high constant rate regardless of processor speed, power settings, or anything of that nature. The same basic mechanics as before are in play of course, but there is another important factor.

Servers 95

Servers Tuning Architecture Processing 95

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). Outside of EC2, many other providers are deploying on KVM.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

O'Reilly

AUGUST 4, 2022

The claim is that AGI is now simply a matter of improving performance, both in hardware and software, and making models bigger, using more data and more kinds of data across more modes. If you don’t know what you’re aiming for, it’s difficult to plot a course to it. And what if you can’t see the summit?

Games 103

Games Social Media Hardware Architecture 103

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

The reasons for it are numerous, but the most important one is a huge difference in network conditions and device hardware across the world. We chose to focus specifically on slow mobile devices — with slow 3G, 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed, just to be on the pessimistic side of things.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Mobile Network 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And of course, companies that don’t use AI don’t need an AI use policy. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Corporate policies on AI use will be appearing and evolving over the next year. (At Does the lack of a policy prevent the adoption of AI?

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106