Tag: optimization

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Manoj Swaminathan. Disruptions in global supply chains have significantly increased over the last decade, fueled by a myriad of triggers ranging from trade wars, demand surges from social marketing, natural disasters, and most recently, the recent COVID-19 pandemic.Updates to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management in the 2020 release wave 1 help organizations proactively transform every aspect of manufacturing and supply chain operations to reduce disruptions. These new and updated capabilities drive automation and reduce downtime using IoT and mixed reality, and provide the agility to re-plan production in real time to dynamically changing ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Write-Ahead Logs is a critical part of PostgreSQL, that ensures data durability. While there are multiple configuration parameters , there was no easy to monitor WAL activity, or what is generating it. New infrastructure to track WAL activity commit df3b181499b40523bd6244a4e5eb554acb9020ce Author: Amit Kapila Date: Sat Apr 4 10:02:08 2020 +0530 Add infrastructure to track WAL usage. This allows gathering the WAL generation statistics for each statement execution. The three statistics that we collect are the number of WAL records, the number of full page writes and the amount of WAL bytes generated. This helps the users who ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series that focuses on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. Part one can be found here, and part two can be found here.  13. Configure MySQL Server ProperlyComplexity:MediumPotential Impact: High A poorly configured MySQL Server can cause severe issues, especially under high load during a traffic spike, yet getting the basics right is not that hard. While MySQL Server has more than 400 variables you can tune, you rarely need to change more than 10-20 of them to get 95% of the possible performance for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Fred Wurden. There’s no question that organizations today are being disrupted in their industry. In a previous blog post, I shared that such disruption often accelerates organizations’ decisions to move to the cloud. When these organizations migrate to the cloud, Windows workloads are often critical to their business and these workloads require a performant, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure. Customers tell us that reducing risk, building cloud expertise, and lowering costs are important factors when choosing that infrastructure.Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, a comprehensive program ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Roshni Pary. This post is contributed by Shankar Ramachandran, SA Specialist, Cost OptimizationIntroduction AWS’s breadth of services and pricing options offer the flexibility to effectively manage your costs, and still keep the performance and capacity per your business requirement. While the fundamental process of cost optimization on AWS remains the same – monitor your AWS costs and usage, analyze the data to find savings, take action to realize the savings; in this blog I will take a more tactical approach of reducing cost with changes in user demand. Before you start Before taking any actions to reduce ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Since Amazon Redshift launched in 2012, its focus has always been on providing you with the best possible performance, at scale, and at the lowest possible cost. For most organizations across the globe, the amount of data going into their data warehouse is growing exponentially, and the number of people who want insights from that data increases daily. Because of this, Amazon Redshift is continually innovating to handle this growing volume of data and demand for insights.Amazon Redshift delivers fast performance, at scale, for the most demanding workloads. Getting there was not easy, and it ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; This is a three-part blog series that focuses on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. Part one of this series talked about the first six things you can do, and in part two, we will be discussing numbers seven through twelve.7. Get More MemoryComplexity: LowPotential Impact: HighIf your data does not fit into memory well, your MySQL performance is likely to be severely limited. If your data already fits in well, adding even more memory will not provide any performance improvements.Even when you’re running on very fast storage, ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: sherrilhanson. With the global retail industry facing intensifying headwinds from online rivals and the virtual elimination of footfall traffic in the wake of COVID-19, stores increasingly are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance their efficiency, helping drive nearly an eightfold rise in sales of such software by 2025.Worldwide spending on AI software for retail uses is forecasted to expand to $9.8 billion in 2025, up from $1.3 billion in 2019, according to the Artificial Intelligence for Retail Applications report from Omdia. Globally, retailers will invest $37.3 billion on AI-driven solutions from 2019 through 2025. “Giant ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Posts | Joshua Cook. [This article was first published on Posts | Joshua Cook, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Introduction Caching intermediate objects in R can be an efficient way to avoidre-evaluating long-running computations. The general process is alwaysthe same: run the chunk of code once, store the output to disk, and loadit up the next time the same chunk is run. There are, of course,multiple packages ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sanjay Nighojkar. By Suraj Nathani, Sr. Solutions Architect at Mactores CognitionBy Anil Patel, Data Engineer at Mactores CognitionBy Sanjay Nighojkar, Manager, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSSeagate Technology is a United States-based data storage company with worldwide manufacturing facilities that generate huge amounts of manufacturing and testing data. With petabytes of data accumulated over 20 years, and more being generated each day, it was imperative for Seagate to have systems in place to ensure the cost of collecting, storing, and processing data did not exceed their return on investment (ROI). Seagate’s on-premises big data ... Read More