Boston Red Hat User Group

This hybrid session, aimed at intermediate to advanced developers, will explore the system performance analysis and tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) comparing Performance Lab results of RHEL 9 vs RHEL 8.4.

During this time, we will:

Share how to maximize the performance of systems by choosing a tuned targeting throughput or latency using the web-console
Show how to analyze the system performance using several performance analysis tools and techniques. Our results begin using open source micro-benchmarks and then relate those results to common applications such as database servers, financial applications on a variety of the common hardware platforms
Focus on the most recent x86 using Intel IceLake and AMD Milan processors and share results of RHEL on select ARM based servers
[In-person attendees] Provide networking over catered pizza and beer!

Speaker and Presenter Information

D. Shakshober (Shak) - Red Hat Senior Manager, SE & Sr Distinguished Engineer, Global D. John Shakshober (Shak) is the Technical Director of Performance Engineering at Red Hat in Westford Mass. Shak has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology. For 15+ years, Shak has worked with a team to ensure RHEL delivers the peak performance on benchmarks and real customer applications on the latest partner CPUs, large Numa Memory, RHEL/fast datapath networking and SSD/NvME IO for high end databases.