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Nowadays anyone who want to smartly store cool or cold data will be guided to an Object Storage solution. This cloud model replaced a lot of usages such as our old FTP servers, our backup storage or static website hosting. The keywords here are "Low price", "Scability", "Unlimited". But like…

Many tools exist around the globe to get performance data for a HTTP connection but we can consider them as stress tools: They focus on launching an amount of request and output statistical aggregations of latency, throughput and rate. ApacheBenchmark (ab), wrk, httperf, we regularly use these software for what…

Nowadays, most of the cloud vendors provide different solutions to store your data and exploit them from other services. In virtual machine realm, it is often admitted that block storage brings a flexible consumption and local device ensures a low latency. At Cloud Mercato we continuously test and report storage…

There is a widely held idea in the Internet that a written snippet will be universally valid to test and produce comparable results from any machine. Said like that, this assertion is globally false but a piece of code, valid in a context, can do a lot of road on…

Python and its nature I am fundamentally a Python developer, a fact which makes me skip a bunch of C knowledge. I made the choice to stop placing all my focus on system performance to learn in writing and learning velocity. This will be the first of many blog posts…