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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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

In this post, we are going to compare the performance and pricing of DigitalOcean PostgreSQL vs. ScaleGrid PostgreSQL to help you determine the best PostgreSQL hosting service on DigitalOcean. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. Now, let’s take a look at the throughput and latency performance of our comparison.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. shared_buffer.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Application performance Review (also known as Application Performance Walkthrough or Application Performance Assessment) is the process of review of an existing application (in production) to evaluate its performance and scalability attributes. I would like to see a review of this performance!

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Dynatrace

APRIL 16, 2024

Today, engineers are spending an increasing amount of time developing and testing code in production-like environments. Challenges in testing environments Testing is no longer just a standalone phase sandwiched somewhere in the middle of the development process. It’s no longer just about testing isolated bits of code.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

This blog post will share broadly-applicable techniques (beyond GraphQL) we used to perform this migration. The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. To launch Phase 1 safely, we used AB Testing. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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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. Cloud seriously impacts system architectures that has a lot of performance-related consequences. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Abstracta

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interested in performance testing? Stay tuned! The post Performance Testing In-Depth #1 Hosted by Abstracta, WOPR29 is just around the corner appeared first on Abstracta Software Testing Services. Find out in this article, featuring Paul Holland, Andy Hohenner, Eric Proegler, and Federico Toledo.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In my recent Performance Clinic with Stefano Doni , CTO & Co-Founder of Akamas , I made the statement, “Application development and release cycles today are measured in days, instead of months. Increase in environment complexity and increased frequency in delivery requires a novel approach to performance optimization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. Auto Remediation generates recommendations by considering both performance (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 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. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2024

During a breakout session at Dynatrace Perform 2024 , Alois Mayr, principal product manager at Dynatrace, and Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, broke down how Dynatrace and Akamas can help organizations enhance Kubernetes cluster management. Consider a sudden drop in performance. “Additionally, we are full-stack and goal-oriented.

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DZone

MAY 16, 2022

Projects involving performance testing and engineering fail for a variety of reasons. The majority of performance project failures occur for various highly complex reasons from every phase of the development life cycle and performance testing life cycle.

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DZone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For a project member, when we heard about API performance tests. Do we always have some questions like what should our standard for API performance? How we can define an automation process for API performance tests? What are the tools we can use? So, I would like to share that experience using this blog.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For a more proactive approach and to gain further visibility, other SLOs focusing on performance can be implemented. For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. We are going to use a common, popular plan size using the below configurations for this performance benchmark: Comparison Overview. The greatest performance improvement can be seen in the higher thread count rows of 175 and 200 threads where ScaleGrid achieves over 45% higher throughput.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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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).

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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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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

RASP capabilities aim to close the gap left by application security testing and network perimeter controls such as web application firewalls (WAFs). Static application security testing (SAST) analyzes code for common security coding errors. These limitations include the following: High tuning and monitoring overhead.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. Compared to replay testing, canaries allow us to extend the validation scope beyond the service level.

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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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DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Performance engineering at its finest. As the world becomes more decidedly digital, the demand for apps has skyrocketed like never before. " There's an app for that " is not just a popular saying. It is an accurate depiction of how people live their lives.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. Resilient applications with chaos testing in pre-production Another Dynatrace team uses a guardian as a safeguard during chaos testing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

[link] The Challenge Given Netflix’s vast and increasingly diverse catalog, it is a challenge to design experiments that both work within an A/B test framework and are representative of all genres, plots, artists, and more. The manual nature of these tasks means that we cannot test many titles at a time.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Testing automation can be painstaking. It’s also crucial to test frequently when automating IT operations so that you don’t automatically replicate mistakes. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Monitoring automation is ongoing.

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DZone

JUNE 4, 2020

The purpose of this article is to assist performance engineers and IT organizations to estimate their current situation and successfully build and maintain their Performance Center of Excellence. Performance Architects. Many customer testing organizations. Performance CoE Managers. Performance Engineers.

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DZone

JULY 24, 2017

We take a look at the best articles on Performance on DZone from June, some interesting pieces from others sites, and great performance gigs and publications featured on DZone.

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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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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, it’s common that teams need to refactor an application to help with performance after the lift-and-shift operation. Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success. In MongoDB 6.x:

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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? How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? Thomas Bohm.

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DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

According to a performance test conducted by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, a senior software engineer at Red Hat, the process traced using strace ran 173 times slower, which is disastrous for a production environment. If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace.

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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. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Modern web applications rely heavily on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and 3rd-party integrations (for example, web analytics, tag managers, chat bots, A/B testing tools, ad providers, and more). Their performance and any errors they cause can have a massive impact on your bottom line. Today, Akamai has ~265,000 delivery nodes.

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Tim Kadlec

MAY 21, 2020

It was a great excuse for running a split test. By serving one version of the site with instant.page in place to some traffic, and a site without it to another, I could compare the performance of them both over the same timespan and see how it shakes out. All that was left was to see if the split testing was actually working.

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