QCon San Francisco 2021 November 1-5, 2021 | | Brewing Java Applications in Sigma Managed Clusters

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What You’ll Learn

Learn challenges of doing performance analysis and capacity planning in the cloud and data center.
Hear about some of the mistakes (some are surprises) that can be avoided when dealing with cloud performance issues.

Abstract

In handling the largest online shopping event in the world, the emergence of large-scale software deployments in the data center has led to many challenges. We will cover two of them: (1) evaluating and estimating software performance at scale, and (2) optimizing software for resource management. This presentation addresses the two challenges by bringing the knowledge of software performance monitoring in the data center to the world of applying performance analytics. We will describe how effective decisions can be made in a case study.

Question:

What is the motivation for this talk?

Answer:

As more and more applications are running in the cloud and the data center, this talk would describe the challenges of doing performance analysis and a few mistakes to avoid. Basic to intermediate knowledge of software performance is required. Some knowledge of typical performance tools run on the servers.

Question:

What technology problem keeps you up at night?

Answer:

Misunderstanding of the system performance data. Drawing the wrong conclusion from the analysis.

Speaker: Kingsum Chow

Chief Scientist, Java Technologies and Software Hardware Co-Optimization @AlibabaGroup

Kingsum is currently a Chief Scientist at Alibaba System Software Hardware Co-Optimization. Since receiving Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 1996, he has been working on performance, modeling and analysis of software applications. He has been issued more than 20 patents. He has presented more than 80 technical papers. Kingsum appeared four times in JavaOne keynotes and almost a dozen times in JavaOne and Oracle OpenWorld presentations covering the topic of software performance systems and optimization. Kingsum also co-chairs QCon Beijing 2018. In his spare time, he volunteers to coach multiple robotics teams to bring the joy of learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to the K-12 students in USA and China. His teams appeared in national and world championships three times, taking home best programming in 2010 and best sensor technology and machine learning for robotics in both 2014 and 2015.