Architects' Tech Alliance

Feb 22, 2019 · Operations

Performance Monitoring and Analysis in Large‑Scale Data Centers: Challenges and Practices

The article presents Alibaba's experience in large‑scale data‑center performance monitoring, describing the challenges of software and hardware upgrades, the SPEED platform’s estimation‑evaluation‑decision workflow, the RUE metric, and practical insights such as hyper‑threading effects, hardware heterogeneity, and Simpson’s paradox.