One of our primary focuses at Percona is performance. Let me make some statements on what is “performance.”
In doing so I will refer to two pieces of content:
- Carry Millsap’s talk “Performance Instrumentation: Beyond What You Do Now” [1]
- White Paper (by Peter and Baron) “Goal-Driven Performance Optimization” [2]
I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with both of them.
Performance
Performance is about tasks and
time.
We say that the system is performing well if it executes a
task in an acceptable period of time, or that
the …