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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

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Using SLOs to become the optimization athlete with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

For example, an athlete must be in tune with their body to know when something isn’t operating right which could impact their future performance. In our exercise: Metric 1 (Number of requests with a response time > 1 second): requires the creation of a calculated metric with the right filter. Ability to define automatic baselining.

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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Benchmarking Checklist

Brendan Gregg

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. They are: **Performance mantras**. Don't do it. Do it, but don't do it again. Do it less. Do it later. Do it concurrently.

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Evaluating the Evaluation: A Benchmarking Checklist

Brendan Gregg

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. sounds like a homework exercise of purely academic value. They are: **Performance mantras**. Don't do it. Do it, but don't do it again. Do it less. Do it later. Do it concurrently.

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Manageable – DynamoDB eliminates the need for manual capacity planning, provisioning, monitoring of servers, software upgrades, applying security patches, scaling infrastructure, monitoring, performance tuning, replication across distributed datacenters for high availability, and replication across new nodes for data durability.

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