MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Luckily we’ve recommended some of the best web performance books to read while stuck at home. High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge For Front-End Engineers. If you’re looking to read optimization ideas from one of the greatest minds in speed performance, look no further. Need a good distraction?

Speed 85

Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

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

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 125

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2020

Synthetic monitors are also the perfect tool to monitor performance baselines. This clean-room, lab-like environment allows you to react to slight changes in performance. It also gives you the first indication of whether a new deployment of your application or API leads to a performance improvement or, perhaps, a regression.

Metrics 215

Metrics Monitoring Performance Benchmarking 215

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning.

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 204

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 125

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. This results in improved performance. You may get good performance by setting lower values. SHMMAX / SHMALL.

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Tuning Database Servers Processing 55

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Huge performance leaps in recent years The top priority is often performance, where ARM resources have improved significantly.

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Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 263

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

MachMetrics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When most people test their site speed, they test a single, static page. If your site utilizes a log in, a simple test may only give you a speed audit on how fast your site loads it’s log in form. Testing the speed of a checkout process. Or a page that’s protected behind a login? Now for the bad news.

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Speed Testing Google Tuning 57

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. Doing so helps ensure optimal performance while maintaining adequate levels of protection against unwanted connection attempts.

Java 130

Java Network Servers Database 130

DZone

JULY 10, 2019

Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. High data locality can greatly improve the performance of Spark jobs. A Note on Data Locality. The first few tips are related to locality.

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Best Practices Latency Storage Tuning 138

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

Dynatrace Visually complete is a point-in-time web performance metric that measures when the visual area of a page has finished loading. New web performance metrics and r evamped Visually Complete. Analyze application performance with newly added web performance metrics. More precisely, you can now: .

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Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 133

InfoQ

MARCH 20, 2024

Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications.

Speed 86

Speed Mobile Architecture Tuning 86

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

An analysis of performance evolution of Linux’s core operations Ren et al., Perhaps the most interesting lesson/reminder is this: it takes a lot of effort to tune a Linux kernel. Google’s data center kernel is carefully performance tuned for their workloads. 14, and after that performance starts to degrade noticeably.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In

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Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 186

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

Dynatrace

APRIL 23, 2019

Synthetic monitors provide a perfect means of continually monitoring the performance baselines of your web applications. However, understanding the performance of different application types requires an emphasis on different performance metrics, that is, key performance metrics. Key performance metrics come with a new UI.

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Metrics Monitoring Performance Speed 102

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Tune and optimize to improve performance Even if you consider your database platform modern, simple database tuning and optimization can speed up your processes significantly.

Database 81

Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 81

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

We have seen users who joined our preview program “speed up their release validation by 90%”. Many of our users are performance engineers using Cloud Automation Quality Gates to automate the analysis of their performance and load tests – saving hours of analysis time for each test they run.

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DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure 244

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s world, the speed of innovation is key to business success. A key requirement for agent technology is avoiding a negative impact on performance. Existing RASP solutions often introduce a significant overhead negatively impacting application performance and customer experience. Dynatrace news. How to get started.

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Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 234

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes. The Performance Engineering team specializes in optimizing resource utilization at Netflix.

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Media Open Source Efficiency Software Engineering 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. This gives you deep visibility into your code running in Azure Functions, and, as a result, an understanding of its impact on overall application performance and user experience. So stay tuned! Dynatrace news.

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Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 236

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

At Perform 2021 , Dynatrace’s Kristof Renders, Services Practice Manager for Autonomous Cloud Enablement, joined Sumit Nagal, Principal Engineer at Intuit, to demonstrate how service-level objectives (SLOs) and business-level objectives (BLOs) can “shift left.” Nearly 42% do not perform manual or automated checks.

Benchmarking 182

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 182

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM and Gartner Critical Capabilities.

Government 223

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 223

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. Chaos testing enriches the organization’s intelligence about how software performs under stress and how to make it more resilient.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 224

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Managing The Execution Speed of The Slaves. With these settings, we will be able to get better parallelization and speed on the slave, but if there are too many parallel threads, the overhead involved in coordinating between the threads will also increase and can unfortunately offset the benefits. Stay tuned!!

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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

KeyCDN

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With this new POP, our performance in Latin America has significantly improved and provides a better web experience. POP in Mexico City After launching POPs in Dubai, Tel Aviv, Brisbane, Athens and Denver this year, the new POP boosts performance for Central America. The POP is in production and enabled for all existing Zones.

Latency 111

Latency Tuning Cache Traffic 111

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 112

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

As an app developer analyzing a crash detected by Dynatrace, you can see the sequence of steps that were performed by the user along with the crash stack trace: With this information in hand, you can immediately see in which method the error occurred. The masking API we provide allows you to fine-tune the masking configuration to your needs.

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Mobile Tuning Monitoring Storage 193

KeyCDN

JANUARY 25, 2023

Our mission is to continuously improve web performance, and each POP contributes to it. Lisbon - Portugal The POP in Lisbon brings better performance to Portugal, with a population of over 10 million people. According to the Speedtest Global Index, Peru has an average internet connection speed of just over 67.5 What's next?

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Latency Tuning Cache Speed 60

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Today, the speed of software development has become a key business differentiator, but collaboration, continuous improvement, and automation are even more critical to providing unprecedented customer value. Dynatrace’s version awareness allows you to stay in control despite speeding up application delivery. What’s next.

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Cloud DevOps Speed Azure 167