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Top 10 Tips for Making the Spark + Alluxio Stack Blazing Fast

DZone

Alluxio is leveraged as compute-side virtual storage to improve performance. But to get the best performance, like any technology stack, you need to follow the best practices. In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Virtual Memory. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Virtual Memory. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Huge Pages.

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Monitoring-as-code through Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiative

Dynatrace

Support all the mechanisms and best-practices of git-based workflows such as pull requests, merging and approvals. Dynatrace MaaS is an integral part of adopting Autonomous Cloud Enablement best practices, where we look at automating everything with, and around, Dynatrace. Stay tuned for an upcoming Performance Clinic !

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5 SRE best practices you can implement today

Dynatrace

Without SRE best practices, the observability landscape is too complex for any single organization to manage. Like any evolving discipline, it is characterized by a lack of commonly accepted practices and tools. In a talent-constrained market, the best strategy could be to develop expertise from within the organization.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.