As developers, we mostly focus on the area of developing applications in the best possible manner. This includes the choice of languages, tools, algorithms, etc. whichever helps us get the best possible outcomes while also keeping the productivity in check. These applications can be the…

So, a new year and a new set of challenges are already here. Over the past few weeks, I have been trying to understand how to profile the software performance of applications while they are running in production. While there are a huge number of softwares…

PostgreSQL is one of the well renowned database in the application development areas, where it finds its use in a large number of projects. This can be attributed not only to its open source development model but also to the extent of customizations that it…

System and application monitoring is a hot topic nowadays, and why it won’t be. Those small numbers which you collect from your system and applications, go a long way into explaining the cause for a lot of problems. There are a number of tools that…

Managing infrastructure in an IT environment is a big deal. There is a lot of time and human effort that goes into building and managing the IT Infrastructure so that it runs efficiently and provides good performance. At Red Hat, we have a lot of…

Building up on my previous post, where I talked about profiling applications using perf command. Now, I will like to shed some light upon some other tools which can come handy in understanding your system performance. Linux provides a lot of inbuilt tools which can…

Performance of any program plays an important role, it is something which makes a user stay with your software. Imagine, if your software takes minutes to start even on a power machine, or show visible performance drops when doing some important work, that will be…