Solaris is a Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle. It is designed for use on SPARC, x86, and IA-64 architectures. Solaris is used as a server operating system in many large enterprise environments and cloud computing solutions. It provides a wide range of features, including virtualization, clustering, high availability, … Read more
CPU time is the amount of time that the process is using the CPU, converting it to percentage is done by dividing it by the real amount of time passed. For example, if CPU time is 1 second of total execution time 2 seconds then the CPU utilization is ½ x 100 = 50%. How … Read more
Introduction DB2 is an IBM database software product that is designed to manage both relational and non-relational data. It is the most popular relational database management system (RDBMS) for large-scale corporate data warehouses. DB2 is used to store, manage, and analyze data from multiple sources, including databases, big data, and cloud sources. DB2 has many … Read more
Introduction Oracle Database (OracleDB) is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. It is a multi-model database, meaning it can support multiple data models, including the object-relational model and the object-oriented model. OracleDB is the world’s most popular enterprise database, used by many of the world’s largest organizations in various industries. … Read more
Are APM Tools spoiling the current generation of Performance Engineers? I see a major generation gap when I talk to engineers who have been in the field for under 5-6 years. They describe their primary performance engineering skillset as an APM tool. They mostly haven’t even heard of Brendan Gregg or fundamental tracing methods. The … Read more
