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  • A new web application for the DBOD service

    A new web application for the DBOD service

    A new web application for the DBOD service Introduction The DBOD service maintains a web interface allowing “database on demand” users to carry out ordinary tasks without intervention of the administrators. It is with a view to ergonomy, but above all to modularity and scalability, that a complete redesign of this application has been initiated.

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  • Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark

    Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark

    Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark Topic: This post is about techniques and tools for measuring and understanding CPU-bound and memory-bound workloads in Apache Spark. You will find examples applied to studying a simple workload consisting of reading Apache Parquet files into a Spark DataFrame. Why are the topics discussed here relevant

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  • Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing, an introduction.

    Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing, an introduction.

    Hadoop performance troubleshooting with stack tracing, an introduction. Topic: This post is about profiling and performance tuning of distributed workloads and in particular Hadoop applications. You will learn of a profiler application we have developed and how it has successfully been applied to tuning Sqoop to improve the throughput of data transfer from Oracle to

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  • Flame Graphs for Oracle

    Flame Graphs for Oracle

    Flame Graphs for Oracle Topic: This post is a hands-on introduction to using on-CPU Flame Graphs for investigating Oracle workloads. This technique is about collecting and visualizing sampled stack trace data to analyze and troubleshoot Oracle processes at the OS level (in particular applied to Linux). Motivations: The techniques and tools described here can be

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