Performance Engineering

Overview

This page contain various links about performance engineering mainly on systems level.

Statistics

• https://github.com/HeinrichHartmann/Statistics-for-Engineers

Linux Tracing Tools

perf

• https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

ftrace

• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/trace/ftrace.html

eBPF

• https://ebpf.io/
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/bpf/documents/

strace

• https://strace.io/

lttng

• https://lttng.org/

systemtap

• https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki
• RHEL 8 Documentation Systemtap
• RHEL 9 Documentation Systemtap
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SystemTap

Benchmarking Tools

MongoDB Benchmark

• https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-perf

Memcached Benchmark

Redis Benchmark

• https://redis.io/docs/management/optimization/benchmarks/

Elasticsearch Benchmark

PostgreSQL Benchmark

• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbench.html

MySQL/MariaDB Benchmark

Cassandra Benchmark

• https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.x/cassandra/tools/toolsCStress.html
• https://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cassandra/tools/cassandra_stress.html

Couchbase Benchmark

References

Intel Processor Developer Guides

• Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals

AMD Processor Developer Guides

• https://www.amd.com/en/products/epyc-server
• Developer Guides, Manuals & ISA Documents
• EPYC Specs and Manual
• EPYC Tuning Guides
• AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volumes 1-5

ARM Processor Developer Guides

• ARM Architecture reference manual

Readings

• EC2 Performance Tuning Netflix EC2 Performance Tuning 2014
• Netflix EC2 Performance Tuning 2017
• https://github.com/agile6v/container_cpu_detection
• https://blog.quarkslab.com/digging-into-linux-namespaces-part-1.html