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Tune your databases

Spick and Span free

Release 2 of Percona Monitoring and Management for open source databases helps reign in inefficient queries and ensure you are making the best use of the available hardware.
Databases , Optimize , Performance
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11 Tricks for Windows servers

Knowledge free

A number of techniques applied in PowerShell or other management tools can run Windows servers more effectively, harden them, and improve their performance.
Performance , Powershell , Server , Windows
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Cron alternatives fcron and hcron

Task Schedulers free

The fcron and hcron scheduler alternatives to cron are suitable for computers that do not run around the clock, and each come with specific benefits.
application per... , schedulers , tools
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Enlarging the TCP initial window

Open the Floodgates free

Linux on-board resources let admins open the floodgates for high-volume TCP packages.
Administration , Performance , stacked filesystem , TCP Wrappers
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Linux I/O Schedulers

The Linux kernel has several I/O schedulers that can greatly influence performance. We take a quick look at I/O scheduler concepts and the options that exist within Linux.

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Optimizing Windows Server 2016 performance

Torque Booster free

With Windows Server 2016, tweaking the settings and taking advantage of performance monitoring tools can help boost your system's performance.
Performance , Windows , Windows Server
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Performance troubleshooting on Microsoft SQL Server

Gridlock free

Use Microsoft SQL Server diagnostic tools to troubleshoot bottlenecks and other performance problems.
management , Performance , Server , SQL , troubleshoot
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OpenStack Trove for users, sys admins, and database admins

Semiautomatic free

Trove brings DBaaS to OpenStack; however, the service needs meaningful configuration for optimum performance.
DBaaS , OpenStack , Performance
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End-to-end monitoring – Measuring what the user perceives

Test Robot free

Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.
cloud , monitoring , Performance , tools
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System Accountant

Several utilities offer a snapshot of system performance – from Top or Uptime to Iostat, Netstat, and Mpstat – but what if you only learn of a bottleneck after it has happened? Sar to the rescue.

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