The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., For example: “Red Hat and Suse normally required 6-18 months to optimise the performance an an upstream Linux kernel before it can be released as an enterprise distribution”, and. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Understanding operational 5G: a first measurement study on its coverage, performance and energy consumption , Xu et al., There are high hopes for 5G , for example unlocking new applications in UHD streaming and VR, and machine-to-machine communication in IoT. For UDP , the authors achieved 880 Mbps dowload and 130 Mbps upload speeds.

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The crisis could be technical, natural, or malicious events, for example an earthquake affecting data center availability, or a cyberattack infecting applications and websites. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient. Watch webinar now!

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

What does this example have to do with software development and video encoding? Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. The facilities are modern, spacious and scalable. The success was repeated by H.264/AVC,

Open Source 166

Open Source Scalability Speed Efficiency 166

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 15, 2020

The limited number access points, compounded with the fact that traffic is controlled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, creates performance bottlenecks for all users in China when trying to access websites from inside and outside of the country. These updates will disable access of Google apps downloader, for example.

Monitoring 52

Monitoring Performance Artificial Intelligence Internet 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

The DBMS is key to maintaining these aspects by offering a storage system that allows users to perform operations such as data insertion, deletion, and selection, thereby promoting enhanced data integration across diverse applications and platforms. Practical Applications of DBMS DBMS finds practical applications in various fields.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Testsigma

APRIL 13, 2021

Interestingly, Xcode provides a testing framework called XCTest to write unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests. Example: Consider an e-commerce app that is running an offer of providing 50% off on the next order to the customer. We can use these documented statistics to improve the testing and application performance.

Testing 84

Testing Hardware Mobile Testing Tools 84

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. For example, request collapsing , edge-side includes , etc.). It’s vital that we understand just what TTFB can cover, and just how critical it can be to overall performance.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 25, 2019

When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. Acceleration—Adding hardware support to reduce the runtime overheads of security features. However, higher performance does not necessarily fix the problem.

Hardware 98

Hardware Virtualization Architecture Games 98

Testsigma

APRIL 4, 2022

Here are some examples: Test Environment Setup: Installing libraries using scripts Setting configuration variables, etc. Mocking Component Behavior Useful in IoT & Embedded Software Testing Can also reduce (or eliminate) actual hardware/component need Test Reporting Generating summary report/email. github.com).

Testing 95

Testing Open Source IoT Programming 95

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. This can be your external facing website, internal business applications.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. In this article, we uncover how PageSpeed calculates it’s critical speed score. It’s no secret that speed has become a crucial factor in increasing revenue and lowering abandonment rates. Recommended! PageSpeed 5.0

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

The kind of edge server envisaged here might, for example, be integrated with your WiFi access point. One example from the paper is an application using the ammo.js As an example, the figure below illustrates the runtime state of the cubes simulation app. An example for the cubes application is shown below.

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Imagine, for example, that you test a prototype but discover that users are not interacting with the interface how they are supposed to. This is one example of the benefits of using eye-tracking. Yahoo’s homepage in 1997 is an example of how websites were less dynamic and followed the structure of a printed newspaper.

Mobile 112

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 112

Alex Russell

JUNE 19, 2020

Moving this site to Eleventy and Netlify has been a great way to improve the performance of the deployed end-product, which was reason enough to make the switch. There's work in progress to make incremental builds possible for 11ty, but until then, the speed of a full build is the speed at which changes are visible.

Cache 49

Cache Hardware Speed Cloud 49

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 124

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 124

Testsigma

JANUARY 30, 2021

The native and mobile web browser testing is being performed more and more compared to desktop testing. For example, if you are using internet banking via a Mobile Web application, it will not allow you to save cards or mark any transaction as favourite. What are Mobile Web Applications?

Mobile 52

Mobile Testing Website Internet 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware.

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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

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.

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Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This machine has four i7 CPUs (hyperthreaded to 8) with a base speed of 2.4GHz. Performance is competitive at around 15ms. This code is provided for interest and is not included in the performance summary table. Test Environment.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Testsigma

JULY 25, 2020

These different stages could be stages of tests: unit tests, integration tests, acceptance tests and performance tests as well as stages of environments such as Dev, QA, Staging and Production. If integration tests pass, automated acceptance tests can be run followed by performance tests. What is DevOps? Some of them are: 1.

Testing 55

Testing DevOps Performance Testing Infrastructure 55

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The open hardware architecture and open-ended software licensing opened the door for inexpensive IBM PC "clones” that created less expensive, equally (and sometimes more) advanced, and equally (if not superior) quality versions of the same product. These are all-in bets taken and lost, two examples of big bets that resulted in big routs.

Hardware 52

Hardware Social Media Media Strategy 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In today's era of global digitalization there are many examples that show that IT does matter. These examples underline that the purpose of software today is not solely to support business processes, but that software solutions have broadly become an essential element in multiple business areas. More than mere support.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

VoltDB

JUNE 19, 2017

While current network speeds may be enough to meet the latency requirements of 4G applications, 5G will necessitate a change, if only because the continental US is ~60ms wide, meaning that a datacenter on one coast communicating with another datacenter on the opposite coast will be too slow for 5G. These have to communicate with each other.

Latency 40

Latency Retail Virtualization Hardware 40

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. How did you get into performance engineering? At first, we were using LoadRunner, but we quickly moved to Performance Center. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

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Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. HPC and Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

The usual caveats also apply: Performance is a deep and nuanced domain, and much can go wrong beyond content size and composition. How sites manage resources after-load can have a big impact on perceived performance. Until and unless teams have better data about their performance, the global baseline budget should be enforced.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rendering is the final step in the VFX creation process, and processing on a render farm often can take several hours to complete just a single frame of a show, even when this process runs on the latest high-end hardware. This program is just one example of the many ways Netflix strives to entertain the world.

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Going forward well continue to employ a hybrid approach using RDS for the necessary transactional computation and services like DynamoDB for high performance and scalability for structured data. Building "incident creators" - servers which test our ability to maintain peak performance. What did you find unique about RDS?

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Effective application development requires speed and specificity. Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Dynatrace news. What is FaaS?

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

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. What follows are my findings on React performance as I’ve tried to meet this challenge in a way that’s best for users. It makes organizing code easier.

Performance 101

Performance Mobile Servers Code 101

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Dynatrace Real User Monitoring (RUM) captures very detailed user behavior, as well as experience and performance information, about every user on your applications.

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Cache Architecture Database Government 198