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

DZone

In addition, compute and storage are increasingly being separated causing larger latencies for queries. 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.

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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. Storage I/O. We help where we can. 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. Storage I/O. We help where we can. Huge Pages.

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5 SRE best practices you can implement today

Dynatrace

Virtualization has revolutionized system administration by making it possible for software to manage systems, storage, and networks. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs. Consider selecting platform-based solutions — whether open source or from a commercial vendor — that support open ecosystems.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

EM gives visibility into the user device and performance from the endpoint to provide information on CPU, memory, operating systems, storage, security, networks, and whether software is up to date. PC, smartphone, server) or virtual (virtual machines, cloud gateways). Endpoints can be physical (i.e.,