12 Nov
Kubernetes using AI to optimize performance
In this interview with Joe Colantonio, host of the TestGuild podcast, Stefano Doni (CTO at Akamas) describes why managing Kubernetes provides many challenges from a performance engineering and SRE perspective. By illustrating Kubernetes key resource management concepts, he explains why tuning
29 Oct
Performance Engineering – a bright future?
During our first Ignite by Akamas, Scott Moore (Head of Customer Engineering at Tricentis) and Stefano Doni (CTO at Akamas) dug deep into the challenges of every performance engineering expert. Watch the video to hear how our experts addressed the very interesting questions received
22 Oct
Automating performance tuning with machine learning
Efficiency is one of Kubernetes’ top benefits, yet companies adopting Kubernetes often experience high infrastructure costs and performance issues, with applications failing to match latency SLOs. Even for experienced Performance Engineers and SREs, sizing of resource requests and limits to ensure application
30 Sep
Performance optimization for banking apps
During the event “Continuous Core Banking Performance Optimization” organized together with our partners Performetriks and Dynatrace, we presented how Akamas allows banks and financial companies to maximize their service performance and resilience, while also reducing costs. In the recorded video (about 20
12 Aug
Akamas Continuous Optimization: Integration with Jenkins in the CI/CD pipeline
Akamas AI-powered performance optimization can be easily integrated in any CI/CD pipeline to ensure that applications are always delivered with an optimal configuration. This short video illustrates how Akamas can be integrated into a Jenkins pipeline to support this continuous
10 Aug
Akamas in 2 minutes: maximize service quality, resilience, and cost savings
Today IT stacks come with hundreds of configuration options that can dramatically impact application performance & resilience, and cost. The complexity of tuning these options defies human experts and the ability to deliver at business speed. Akamas is the AI-powered
11 Jul
Akamas integration with Micro Focus LoadRunner
This video describes the integration between Akamas and Micro Focus LoadRunner solutions. Thanks to the integration with LoadRunner Enterprise and LoadRunner Professional, performance teams can reuse their performance tests to support their optimization activities with Akamas. Watch this video to
05 Jul
Collaborative Filtering: the new state-of-the-art for compiler autotuning
Selecting the right compiler optimizations is known to have huge impacts on application performance. However, optimization options constantly increase and their effect is highly dependent on the specific program, preventing a manual approach. This paper by Akamas Research and Politecnico
03 Jun
AI-driven performance optimization: A real-world example
Modern applications sit atop of many layers, such as Java Virtual Machines, container, database, cloud, and more, each providing hundreds of settings all interacting in complex and counterintuitive ways. Manual and trial-and-error performance tuning cannot cope with this complexity with
10 Sep
From manual performance testing to automated performance optimization
The Akamas team was invited to present our AI-powered performance optimization technology during the London Edition of the Performance Summit, powered by Facebook. Giovanni Gibilisco, Akamas Head of Engineering, demonstrated our novel approach to IT stack tuning: Autonomous Performance Optimization. In this
10 Sep
Faster apps, lower bills: optimizing travel search in the cloud
All online businesses are facing strong challenges in maximizing the throughput of their most critical service during the peak-demand season in a cost-effective way. In less than 2 weeks, Akamas optimized lastminute.com key Java microservice-based application running on Kubernetes, by
08 Sep
A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization
In this Performance Clinic episode, Stefano Doni (CTO Akamas) joins Andreas Grabner (DevOps & ACE Activist at Dynatrace). Stefano explains which are the practical steps you need to take to automate optimizations of your enterprise, cloud, or database systems leveraging observability data
10 Mar
AI-driven optimization: The key to more performance for lower costs
We had the opportunity to organize a webinar alongside Neotys, our Technological Partners. We wanted to present the integration between our two products, that became available with the Akamas 1.7 update, and what better way to do it than with a webinar?
20 Oct
How Akamas achieved 1.5x performance on a core banking platform
Banks and financial companies operate in a strictly regulated and increasingly competitive market, which requires carefully balancing the need to deliver high-quality services to their end-users with the need to improve on their cost-efficiency. This case study describes the results
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