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Performance benchmark of PHP runtimes From Dzmitry Kazbiarovich

Sharing a performance benchmark article written by Dzmitry Kazbiarovich on PHP runtimes.

MySQL - Benchmarking Varchar vs Text

Results of benchmark the difference between using the TEXT and using a large VARCHAR. The results surprised me a lot.

Comparing Nginx And Apache In Burst Workloads

Here we compare Nginx vs Apache at handling burst workloads and explain why one of them appears to handle it much better than the other.

Benchmarking 10G Networking With Iperf

How to use iperf to benchmark your network.

Ubuntu 16.04 - CPU Benchmarking

A guide to various ways to benchmark your CPU.