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Practical performance tuning as never ending journey to widen knowledge

Golden age of programmers who were able to fit in tiny RAM of first gaming consoles the whole universes of legendary games had passed few decades ago. Now your favourite browser can easily swallow gigabytes of memory in order to render single web-page with myriads of annoying ads that ad-blockers trying to defeat. Relative abundance of …

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[docker][cassandra] Reaching mixed load – 750,000 op\sec

Cassandra performance tuning - challenge

The cart goes nowhere because the swan wants to fly in the air, the pike wants to swim underwater and the crawfish wants to crawl backward. Cassandra is one of powerhorse of modern high load landscape – nosql database that can be pluged to Spark for distributed computing, Titan for playing with graph data representation …

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