Mastering SaltStack: A Practical Guide to Automated Operations

This article compares popular automation tools, introduces SaltStack’s architecture and features, walks through its installation, configuration, authentication, command usage, targeting methods, common modules, and explains grains, pillars, and state files for effective large‑scale Linux operations.

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Mastering SaltStack: A Practical Guide to Automated Operations

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Jul 31, 2014 · Operations

Mastering Performance Testing: Key Metrics, Threading, and OS Bottleneck Detection

This article explains core performance‑testing concepts such as TPS, response time, think time, and threading, then details how to identify CPU, memory, and disk bottlenecks on Linux using tools like top, vmstat, iostat, and pidstat, linking system resources to overall application performance.

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Mastering Performance Testing: Key Metrics, Threading, and OS Bottleneck Detection