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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential Can AI Outperform Engineers in Optimizing System Performance and Efficiency? Stefano Doni, Akamas CTO 1

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential Example 1# Optimizing Java application performance 2

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 3 Want faster Java apps? Reduce garbage collection pause is the mantra everyone follows https://www.akamas.io/resources/beware-improving-gc-performance-may-lead-to-slower-applications

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 4 We asked AI to make a Java app faster via JVM tuning. AI reduced latency by 29%... while INCREASING GC time https://www.akamas.io/resources/beware-improving-gc-performance-may-lead-to-slower-applications

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential Example 2# Optimizing cost efficiency of an application on EC2 5

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 6 Want cheaper EC2 apps? Leverage 100s of cloud infrastructure options https://speakerdeck.com/stefanodoni/a-needle-in-the-haystack-optimizing-cloud-configurations-for-price-performance

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential AI found a counter-intuitive instance type that provided -24% costs and+12% throughput 7 https://speakerdeck.com/stefanodoni/a-needle-in-the-haystack-optimizing-cloud-configurations-for-price-performance

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential Example 3# Optimizing latency of a MongoDB database 8

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 9 AI identified optimal full-stack configurations (MongoDB+OS) leading to 2x query/sec https://speakerdeck.com/stefanodoni/achieve-superhuman-performance-with-machine-learning

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 10 Optimal OS settings found by AI apparently made disk IO slower… but that made MongoDB faster https://speakerdeck.com/stefanodoni/achieve-superhuman-performance-with-machine-learning

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© 2024 Akamas • All Rights Reserved • Confidential 11 akamas.io/free-trial See for yourself, try Akamas free trial!

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