- Optimization: Airflow performance - DAG parsing, concurrency settings, pools and deferrable operatorsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: AKS cost and efficiency - right-sized requests, autoscaler tuning and spot node poolsAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: App Service plan consolidation, density and autoscale that follows real loadAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Autonomous Database cost - ECPU sizing, auto scaling, stop/start and elastic poolsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Backup cost - retention, archive tier, disk exclusion and redundancy choicesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Data Factory cost - activity runs, DIUs, data flow clusters and integration runtimesData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Databricks commitments - pre-purchase plans, reserved VMs and how to size them safelyDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Firewall policy clean-up, SKU choice and cost controlAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Front Door caching, compression and origin offloadAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure Functions cold starts, plan choice and the Flex Consumption planAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure spot VMs for Databricks workers - which jobs, fallback settings and eviction handlingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure SQL Database sizing with elastic pools, serverless and the right service tierAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Azure VM performance tuning - size families, accelerated networking, caching and placementAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Blob Storage lifecycle management and access tiers without surprise chargesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: choosing Azure VM families for Databricks clusters - memory, compute, storage-optimized and local SSDDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: controlling OCI Logging and Log Analytics volume, retention and costOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: controlling output tokens - max_tokens, structured outputs, reasoning effort and concise answersAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting CloudWatch Logs cost with retention, log classes and smarter shippingAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting Log Analytics ingestion cost with table plans, DCR filters and commitment tiersAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting NAT Gateway data processing cost with VPC endpointsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting serverless query cost on the lake - Athena and Synapse serverless SQLData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: cutting Structured Streaming cost on Azure Databricks - triggers, availableNow, state store and stream packingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: data lake storage cost by zone - raw retention, file formats, tiers and table historyData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Databricks instance pools on Azure - faster cluster starts without paying for idle VMsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: dbt run time and warehouse cost - incremental models, materialisations and slim CIData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: disk cache vs Spark cache on Azure Databricks - which to use, and when caching hurtsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: DynamoDB cost - capacity mode, table class, TTL and index designAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: EBS snapshot and AWS Backup cost - lifecycle, archive tier and orphan clean-upAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: EKS cost with Karpenter consolidation, spot diversification and right-sized requestsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: ElastiCache right-sizing - memory headroom, Valkey, data tiering and serverlessAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: end-to-end latency for LLM applications - where the seconds go and how to win them backAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Exadata Database Service - online CPU scaling, consolidation and resource managementOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: faster dashboards on Databricks SQL with materialized views, streaming tables and result cachingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: faster Delta MERGE on Azure Databricks - pruning, deletion vectors and source deduplicationDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: faster Power BI semantic models - star schema, VertiPaq size and DAXData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: faster SQL Server backups and restores - compression, striping, buffer settings and backup to URLDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: faster, cheaper Power BI refreshes - incremental refresh, query folding and parallelismData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: fewer, better CloudWatch alarms - anomaly detection, composite alarms and M-of-N evaluationAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding and reducing AWS data transfer costs - cross-AZ, inter-region and internet egressAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding and reducing Azure networking costs - peering, private endpoints, NAT and egressAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: finding idle and orphaned OCI resources - volumes, backups, IPs, load balancers and stopped instancesOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: getting more from GPUs when fine-tuning - mixed precision, batch sizing, data loading and checkpointsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: getting value from provisioned throughput - PTU utilisation, spillover and right-sizingAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: improving CloudFront cache hit ratio with cache policies, Origin Shield and compressionAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Kafka Connect throughput - tasks, batching, converters and dead-letter queuesData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Kafka producer and consumer tuning for throughput and latencyData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Kafka storage - retention, compaction, tiered storage and partition countsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: keeping agent costs under control - step limits, trimmed tool outputs and context managementAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: keeping LLM observability affordable - trace sampling, payload limits and retention tiersAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines cost - triggered vs continuous, serverless, product edition and refresh scopeDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Lambda performance and cost - memory power tuning, arm64, SnapStart and provisioned concurrencyAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: load balancer clean-up and tuning - idle ELBs, consolidation and target group settingsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: lowering RAG ingestion cost - incremental indexing, deduplication and choosing when to OCRAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: model routing and cascades - send each request to the smallest model that does it wellAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: MongoDB working set, WiredTiger cache and index efficiencyDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: MySQL index clean-up and tuning with the sys schema - unused, redundant and full-scan queriesDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Base Database Service cost - CPU scaling, edition choice, licensing and storageOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Block Volume performance levels (VPUs) and auto-tuneOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI compute cost with flexible shapes, burstable instances and AmpereOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI Functions cold starts, memory sizing and provisioned concurrencyOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OCI volume backup cost - backup policies, incremental vs full, retention and cross-region copiesOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: OKE cost and efficiency - node pools, virtual nodes, cluster autoscaler and AmpereOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Oracle partitioning and compression for large tables - faster queries, easier purges, less storageDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: PostgreSQL declarative partitioning for large tables - pruning, fast purges and easier vacuumDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: PostgreSQL memory settings - shared_buffers, work_mem, maintenance_work_mem and effective_cache_sizeDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: PostgreSQL query and index tuning with pg_stat_statements - top queries, unused and duplicate indexesDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: provider prompt caching - structure prompts so the long, stable part is reusedAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: reducing Azure Monitor alert noise - dynamic thresholds, processing rules and fewer, better alertsAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: reducing OCI Monitoring alarm noise - MQL tuning, pending duration and suppressionsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: reducing Redis memory - data structures, compact encodings, TTLs and eviction policyDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: replacing slow Python UDFs on Databricks - built-in functions, pandas UDFs and ArrowDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing Azure managed disks with performance tiers and Premium SSD v2Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing Microsoft Fabric capacity - smoothing, workload placement and pause/resumeData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing OCI load balancers - flexible bandwidth, Network Load Balancer and consolidationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: right-sizing RDS and Aurora - instance classes, I/O-Optimized and Serverless v2AWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: running LLM evaluations without a huge bill - tiered suites, smaller judges, caching and batchAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: S3 storage cost with Storage Lens, Intelligent-Tiering and lifecycle rulesAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: serverless jobs and notebooks on Azure Databricks - performance-optimized vs standard mode and budget policiesDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sharing GPUs on Kubernetes - MIG, time-slicing and bin packing for small modelsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: shrinking vector indexes - fewer dimensions, int8 and binary quantization, and rescoringAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sizing Azure Event Hubs - tiers, throughput units, auto-inflate and partitionsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sizing Oracle SGA and PGA with the built-in advisorsDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: sizing the MySQL InnoDB buffer pool, redo log and I/O settings from evidenceDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Snowflake storage cost - Time Travel, Fail-safe, transient tables, clones and clusteringData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Snowflake warehouse design - sizing, auto-suspend, multi-cluster and query accelerationData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: speculative decoding for self-hosted LLMs - faster generation without changing the outputAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: SQL Server data compression and columnstore - smaller tables, faster scans, lower storage costDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: SQL Server index and statistics maintenance - stop rebuilding everything every nightDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: SQL Server index review - missing, unused and duplicate indexes from DMVs and Query StoreDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: stopping non-production AWS out of hours - EC2, RDS, EKS, ECS and moreAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: switching off non-production Azure out of hours - VMs, AKS, App Gateway, databasesAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: switching off non-production OCI out of hours with Resource SchedulerOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: Synapse dedicated SQL pool - pause/resume, DWU scaling, workload management and cachingData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: the hidden Azure costs around Databricks - ADLS transactions, private endpoints, NAT and cross-region trafficDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning Auto Loader on Azure - file notification vs listing, batch sizes and schema inference costDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning Azure SQL Database workloads with Query Store and automatic tuningAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning Databricks autoscaling on Azure - min/max workers, scale-down and when to use fixed sizeDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning EC2 Auto Scaling - target tracking, predictive scaling, warm pools and mixed instancesAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning MAXDOP and cost threshold for parallelism on SQL ServerDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning SQL Server from wait statistics - find the real bottleneck before adding hardwareDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: tuning the RAG retrieval budget - top-k, reranking depth and how much context to sendAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: understanding and reducing OCI network costs - egress, service gateway and cross-region trafficOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: using OCI preemptible instances for batch, CI and OKE workersOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: vLLM throughput tuning - batching limits, prefix caching, chunked prefill and parallelismAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Optimization: when Photon pays off on Azure Databricks - test it per job, not per workspaceDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026