MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

As the workflow in the CLI and GUI are the same we will show equivalent commands side by side to help you quickly get up to speed on using the CLI in both interactive and scripted scenarios. One of the first things you will want to do is make sure that we can access the 3rd party driver libraries for the database that we want to use.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

Testing 48

Testing Tuning Latency Storage 48

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.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

Database 87

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 87

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

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.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 75

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Akamas vision is that only an autonomous optimization approach powered by AI can effectively enable performance engineers, SREs, and architects to identify the best configurations that ensure maximum service performance and resilience, at the lowest possible cost and at business speed. Conclusions. Additional resources.

Latency 204

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 204

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

Defenders of Apple's monopoly offer hard-to-test claims, but many boil down to the idea that Apple's product is inferior by necessity. This will, in turn, cause developers to skimp on testing for Safari, making it inevitable that browsers based on WebKit and other minority engines cannot compete. Or so the theory goes.

Engineering 110

Engineering Traffic Government Google 110

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective. Source code tests. Harden the host operating system. Let’s look at each type.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

Testsigma

MARCH 12, 2021

This means that mobile app developers need to ensure that their applications are tested and tested well. The testing needs can be met via manual testing efforts of course and that is what teams do initially. Are your mobile testing cycles becoming longer day by day? This is where mobile test automation comes in.

Mobile 66

Mobile Testing Operating System Software 66

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. The total database size grows to a multiple of the actual data.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 125

Testsigma

JULY 24, 2021

Owing to the abundance of apps and websites in the market, an average user has several choices, and to ensure the user consumes your product, you’ll have to craft products that are compatible with their devices that run on various operating systems. Best Automation Testing Tools for Web and Mobile.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Mobile Testing Entertainment 52

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

And the Operating System environment for Windows Server has become more robust but has introduced more features and complexity. Don’t worry about taking screenshots or speed reading. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed. Here is what it looked like on my system. How do I know this?

Servers 40

Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40

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. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Yes, automation has usually eliminated a small proportion of human jobs; at the same time, however, it has created new opportunities for those well-versed in software, databases, architecture, and operations. Testing and validation. Some visual interfaces require substantial time and effort to test prior to deployment.

Processing 83

Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83

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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

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.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Chokepoint : Even sharded Berkeley DB was choking under the stress and there was a database crash with recovery taking hours, it had to be replaced. Cloud Platform. Google cloud.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Testing And Monitoring. 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. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104