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
09 Jun
Debunking long-standing Java Tuning myths by leveraging AI Optimization
This presentation by Stefano Doni (Akamas CEO) at Neotys PAC 2021 illustrates how some established industry approaches and beliefs about Java Tuning are simply wrong. By debunking four common JVM tuning myths, some surprising results achieved by adopting AI-based optimization are also
07 Jun
Achieving MongoDB performance and cost optimization – automatically
Akamas AI-powered performance optimization makes it possible to automatically maximize database performance without touching the application. In this recording of our session at MongoDB Tech Talk 2021 we show how Akamas can be effectively used to achieve your performance and cost goals:
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
24 Mar
Understanding and measuring CPU throttling in containerized environments
Francesco Fabbrizio, IT Performance Engineer at Moviri, introduces what is throttling and shows how popular open-source and enterprise monitoring solutions address this problem. He also tries to identify new metrics to better understand when throttling is happening. Finally, by the
03 Mar
How AI optimization debunks 4 long-standing Java tuning myths
This presentation by Stefano Doni (Akamas CEO) at Performance Summit 2021 in London illustrates how AI-based optimization provides a more effective approach to Java Tuning that also helps to debunk some common JVM tuning myths based on established industry approaches and beliefs. Key
11 Oct
Optimizing Spark costs on AWS with AI-powered tuning
During the Neotys Jurassic PAC 2020 virtual conference, Luca Cavazzana (Software Engineer at Akamas) explained how Akamas uses AI techniques to find the optimal configuration for Spark applications. He presented a study where Akamas tuned both Apache Spark parameters and EC2 cluster size, finding
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
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?
25 Jan
Measuring CPU throttling in containerized environments
We had the opportunity to present two speeches at the Neotys PAC Santorini 2020 conference. One was about containerized environments and the throttling phenomenon, while the other was about the continuous performance optimization of Java applications. Edoardo Varani (Consultant Performance
24 Jan
Continuous Performance Optimization of Java applications
We had the opportunity to present two speeches at the Neotys PAC Santorini 2020 conference. One spoke about containerized environments and the throttling problem, while the other was about the continuous performance optimization of Java applications. Giovanni Paolo Gibilisco (Head of Engineering at Akamas) explains
23 Oct
A needle in the haystack: Optimizing cloud configurations for price-performance
During the Neotys PAC Virtual 2019, Stefano Doni presented the new AI-driven approach that can find the best cloud configurations for price performance. As of 2019, AWS has 175 EC2 instance types, each one offering a different mix of CPU and
02 Mar
Achieve superhuman performance with machine learning
How can machine learning beat human experts at optimizing application performance? This was one of the questions Stefano Doni (Akamas CTO) answered during the Neotys PAC Chamonix conference. During his talk, Stefano presented the new AI-driven performance optimization: Akamas. He also demonstrated the benefits of
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