In a previous article, we looked at monitoring HBase – a NoSQL distributed database running on top of Hadoop. But how does one deploy an HBase cluster in the first place? Installing Hadoop and HBase on numerous cluster nodes, making sure they communicate properly, starting up the cluster – and making sure everything works flawlessly [...]

In this article you can find some easy steps you can follow to maximize the performance of your ASP.NET applications. 1. Use caching. When multiple users request the same content from your page, your server can respond with a cached copy of that content. This way, only the first user will have to wait for [...]

This is the third of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. The first of these four articles presented an overview and some installation tips. The second article talked about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the article [...]

This is the second of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. The first of these four articles presented an overview and some installation tips. The article you are now reading talks about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips [...]

This is the first of four articles about Database Management Systems’ (DBMS) performance. It presents an overview and some installation tips. The second article talks about building the database’s tables and indexes. Parts three and four get into the meat of accessing the database, with non-SQL tips in the third article and SQL tips in [...]