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Apache Kafka on IBM zSystems - Performance Experiences, Hints and Tips

Apache Kafka is among the most popular open-source distributed event streaming platforms worldwide. It supports more than 1000 use cases, which include traditional applications like messaging and website activity tracking, but also highly sophisticated implementation scenarios around near real-time analytics and fraud detection, for example. Kafka is used by thousands of companies, including over 80% of the Fortune 100.

This presentation summarizes the key findings and recommendations of a performance study that was carried out specifically for running Apache Kafka on Linux on IBM Z. The recommendations given in this report can significantly boost the performance of Kafka environments.

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Apache Kafka on IBM zSystems - Performance Experiences, Hints and Tips

Creation date: June 2022

Elasticsearch on IBM Z - Performance Experiences, Hints and Tips

Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine according to db-engines.com. The number of use cases is huge, the community is extremely active, and new releases are made available frequently. Elasticsearch can be embedded into many software stacks, for example Red Hat® OpenShift®. This presentation summarizes tuning hints and tips that can improve the performance of Elasticsearch significantly when running on Linux on IBM Z.

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Elasticsearch on IBM Z - Performance Experiences, Hints and Tips

Creation date: May 2021