Safely cut cloud bills with no impact on service performance – is it a dream?
Several cloud cost optimization solutions are today available both by Cloud Providers, such as AWS Compute Optimizer or Google machine type recommendations, and…
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How to optimize Spark jobs performance and lower AWS costs
Big data applications often offer relevant opportunities for gains both in terms of performance and of cost reduction. Typically, the underlying…
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Make sure to choose the right GC for your Java application to achieve maximum performance
The Java platform continues to be developed and improved over time. The OpenJDK community has been quite active in improving…
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Java application throughput, response time, and cost: how to optimize
Developers and system owners usually take for granted that there are some intrinsic tradeoffs in the Java design. For example,…
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Beware: lowering GC time may not lead to better application performance
One of the most established approaches to improve Java application performance is to tune JVM options, in particular Garbage Collector…