CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I can see from the screenshot above that TTFB is my most stable metrics—no one page appears to have particularly expensive database queries or API calls on the back-end. The whole point of the exercise that follows is to allow me to move quickly, spotting patterns from afar, and not having to do any slow or meticulous work yet.

Speed 292

Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 292

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. One way to verify a column’s number of distinct values is by querying the pg_stats view in our database. One of the most effective ways to tackle performance improvement is having the proper indexes for the table columns. Next is the table definition.

Best Practices 93

Best Practices Tuning Database Testing 93

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Staff should be familiar with recovery processes and the behavior of the system when it’s working hard to mitigate failures. A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The deployment of connection-aware routing reduced query-load on backend databases by 17%, compared to a baseline implementation using Social Hash alone. Our solver employs a local search algorithm using the “best single move” strategy. Backend processing latency stays fairly constant during this operation.

Traffic 42

Traffic Internet Internet Latency 42

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

In addition to that, software is increasingly dependent on other software to provide its functionality, be it WebServices, HTTP APIs, databases, or even external devices such as sensors. Sadly, it is very common to write logic that deeply couples the notion of IO with the processing of that IO.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

Strategic Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2019

In the real world we can be vague about our business rules and processes. Defining Aggregate Boundaries Deciding that specific business operations should succeed or fail together sounds like a simple requirements gathering exercise. They choose this because it is smaller and should be faster to load and save in the database.

Healthcare 10

Healthcare Software Architecture Database Software 10