Performance Boost Framework in UNIX Kernel for Cloud Applications

Volcanic growth of expanding business and increasing market dimensions lead to need for high performing applications particularly in this internet era. Forrester predicts performance and availability should not to be taken lightly. To fight this onslaught, a business organisation no longer can just accelerate current practices and rely on human intelligence. The company's software also needs to be autonomic. One key aspect for a software to be considered as autonomic is its ability to analyse the system conditions and invoke appropriate actions to optimise the performance and thereby maintaining user satisfaction. Gone are those days where a system would have about five or ten features embedded into the kernel which would have about few hundred services to serve the application requirements. With growing data center it will be impossible to maintain the performance of an application or a system one by one. This clearly dictates the need for automation. In this paper I will discuss about a performance boost framework in UNIX kernel which shall enable the applications take appropriate actions immediately. I shall also provide a demonstration of how this is achieved in a UNIX platform and deployed into distributed cloud environment.