Appian Senior Developer Exam 2023/2024

Appian Senior Developer Exam 2023/2024 How should you scale a system with a high load average in ? - ANSWER-Add Hardware - Usually CPU or RAM (vertical scaling) How should you scale a system with high Java work queue size in the engine performance logs? - ANSWER-Add Application Servers (horizontal scaling) How should you scale a system with high other time in engine call summary log? - ANSWER-Add Engine Replicas (horizontal scaling via read-only replicas) How should you scale a system with low idle time in the engine performance logs? - ANSWER-Add Execution and Analytics Shards (horizontal scaling via partitioning/sharding) How should you scale a system with high execute time in perf_monitor_rdbmd_? - ANSWER-Optimize Your Queries and Applications and External Data Sources What are the key differences between a summary log and a detail log? - ANSWER-Although both are enabled by default, summary logs are written to once every five minutes and aggregate all the relevant events since the last line was logged into one set set of metrics. Also one line is written per update, even if there are no events in the given interval. Detail logs are written to once every hour and they provide fine-grain aggregation by type of event. Multiple lines can be written per update, but will only be written if events occurred. What are some key factors developers should take into account because they will affect the memory footprint of a PROCESS? - ANSWER-All factors directly relate to completion time. Short lived processes are best practice. 1) Size of process model (# of nodes)