Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. I remember really liking the technical side of these tests. But I must confess I was not too fond of having to report the results to stakeholders or deal with political/personal issues related to (poor) test results.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Developers can easily modify applications by adding or swapping out microservices, and testing requirements are reduced because microservices are isolated and often pre-tested. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 208

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

When it comes to access to their applications, users demand instant, reliable, and secure interactions — and that means databases must be highly available. With database high availability (HA), services are largely uninterrupted, and end users are largely satisfied. The obvious answer is this: To achieve high availability.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

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? To answer all these questions we need exhaustive mobile testing in place. Functional Testing.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

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Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. A detailed description of these concepts is below.

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Programming C++ Database Virtualization 82

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This will slow this test a little.) These can be invisible to top(8). in total.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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.”

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. At hardware reset the boot code is granted maximally permissive architectural capabilities.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So lets take an Ubuntu system with Platinum 8280 CPUs with the following Ubuntu OS, reboot and check the CPU configuration before running any tests. hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

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Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unexpected outcomes, security, safety, fairness and bias, and privacy are the biggest risks for which adopters are testing. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” 16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X Why would this be the case?

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Val and Dylan performing power outage durability testing and adding new tests. The Back Story. 4 Socket, TPCC.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. HammerDB difference from Sysbench. 10 rows in set (0.02

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This will slow this test a little.) These can be invisible to top(8). in total.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Combined, technology verticals—software, computers/hardware, and telecommunications—account for about 35% of the audience (Figure 2). Use of a Central, Managed Database. Success with containers.

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SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups.

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Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

A wide range of users with different operating systems, browsers, hardware configurations and other variables provides a wide sample size that helps developers discover as many issues as possible. It’s also important for developers not to confuse real user data with real user testing. What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. This will slow this test a little.) These can be invisible to top(8). in total.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to the Web Platform Tests project and wpt.fyi , we have the makings of an answer for the first: Tests that fail only in a given browser. wpt.fyi 's new Compat 2021 dashboard narrows this full range of tests to a subset chosen to represent the most painful compatibility bugs : Stable-channel Compat 2021 results over time.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Essentially, you can assign a thread to a specific virtual CPU. assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. MySQL determines, at startup, how many virtual CPUs are available.

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Tuning Virtualization Testing Servers 44

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In a different article, we talked about chaos engineering and how SRE teams proactively seek out and test for failures to prevent the worst from happening. The IT service catalog is typically a database or resource that an organization creates to provide users with information on their operational services and offerings.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. This is effectively the same as if you had used the full install and picked the features of Database Engine Services and Client Connectivity SDK as the two components to install. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1 It would scare you).

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