Tag archives: performance

Why you should use sysbench ?

Among all benchmark tools available online, sysbench is one of my favorite. If I have to give two words to it , it would be: simplicty and reliability. At Cloud Mercato we mainly focus on 3 of its parts: CPU: Simple CPU benchmark Memory: Memory access benchmark OLTP: Collection of…

New CPU architecture at Oracle Cloud: VM.Standard.A1.Flex

A decade before, no one was bidding on ARM architecture for server side. It is and was well established in the embebed and mobile systems but it was an odd idea to use it for any layer of a server application. We were able to see only it for some…

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Amazon Web Services : M5 vs M5a vs M6g

In other words Intel vs AMD vs ARM. AWS recently released Graviton series for all their main instance types: R6g with extended memory, C6g for compute optimized and M6g for general purpose. Their offering has always been based on Intel but in the past years we saw AMD and now…

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AWS and the volume equation

Despite being one of the the worldwide most used block storage solution, Amazon's General Purpose SSD is far away from being a general and versatile solution. Unlike other providers selling volumes based on device type and an hourly price per gigabytes, AWS made the choice to create products adapted to…

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