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Releases: Apache Otava (incubating) 0.6.1, Nyrkiö/change-detection v2.0.2 and git-perf 0.1.0
Quite a hat-trick of releases this week! Let me start with clearly the most important one: The project formerly known as Hunter (from Datastax labs) is now Apache Otava, and last night Alexander Sorokoumov managed to navigate the release process all the way to a pypi.org release, from where anyone can now use open source…
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Slides from presentation to SPEC DevOps Performance WG
Just wanted to share the slides from a presentation I did on Tuesday for researchers at SPEC DevOps Performance working group. I had intended to record it too, but unfortunately forgot to actually press record. (Maybe someone wants to invite me to do this same presentation to some other audience so we can record it?)…
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Nyrkio/change-detection GitHub Action is released!
Today we are proud to announce the release of the Nyrkio/change-detection GitHub action. Despite the “v2” label, this is our first release of this new product, after months of intense development and testing together with our partners at Turso Database. This GitHub action will make it a lot easier to start using Nyrkiö Change Detection…
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Welcome Apache Otava (incubating project)
Over the past 9 months we’ve worked to the open source project that Nyrkiö is based on, accepted into the Apache Software Foundation’s incubator. As I’m writing this, the project known as Apache Otava (incubating), is submitted to the customary 72 hour voting process whether our first release candidate will be accepted as an official…
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Scaling Quantum algorithms: Is it inefficient to kill concatenating quantum processes?
Today, we at Nyrkiö Oy are excited to unveil a revolutionary new service that will change the face of quantum computing. We are announcing our new service for independent benchmarking of quantum computers. Yes, you heard that right. We will now be offering unbiased, comprehensive evaluations of these machines of the future. While we are…
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Nyrkiö Oy Announces Quantum Leap: Independent Quantum Computer Benchmarking Services
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HELSINKI, FINLAND – April 1, 2025 – Nyrkiö Oy, a leader in performance testing tools and Continuous Performance Engineering, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking new service: independent 3rd party benchmarking for quantum computers. This service aims to provide unbiased, comprehensive evaluations of quantum computing systems, helping organizations make informed decisions…
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Interview with Pierre Laporte (Part II)
This is the 2nd and final part of our interview with Pierre Laporte, Senior Staff Performance Engineer at Dremio Corporation. Read Part I here. The adoption was tricky, and still is to some extent. The product lacked [several] features… But the core features worked like a charm. As soon as we sent some historical performance…
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Interview with Pierre Laporte (Part I)
Nyrkiö is able to detect change points even in high-variance data. So that solved the first challenge entirely. We could focus on reducing the variance with the piece of mind that detection was a solved problem. Pierre Laporte, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Dremio
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Recent User Interface improvements on Nyrkiö
The past 6 months we’ve been focusing on our development efforts on various user interface improvements on nyrkio.com. Most of this work was in response to feedback and feature requests from our customers. Before I continue, this is a good moment to stop and thank our early customers for great partnership the past year. Thank…
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Timeseries Benchmark on CrateDB and InfluxDB
Following from our previous report comparing CrateDB against MongoDB, we can now also present TSBS benchmark results for InfluxDB. As with the previous report, CrateDB sponsored this work, but did not participate in the benchmarking and did not have editorial control over the report. (In fact, several suggestions from the review phase were rejected in…
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TimeSeries Benchmark on CrateDB and MongoDB
A proud day for Nyrkiö Oy and me personally, as we are today publishing our first report as an “independent performance expert”, comparing two databases as fairly and objectively as possible. It’s a daunting task, as benchmarking is hard and benchmarking databases is harder. And as a performance expert you are asked to put all…
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An introduction to benchmarks
This introductory article explains what benchmarks are, the different types, and when to use them.
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Why we started a software performance company
Nyrkiö was founded by friends and performance experts, Henrik Ingo and Matt Fleming. Nyrkiö aims to arm every developer with the tools necessary to achieve and maintain their performance goals .
