Optimizing Gaming Performance with Apache NiFi: Any Tips?

[#1]

Hey Cloudera community,

I'm an avid gamer and also have some experience working with Apache NiFi for data processing tasks. Lately, I've been wondering if there's a way to leverage NiFi to enhance my gaming experience. I know it's typically used for data integration and ETL, but I've heard it's quite versatile.

So, here's my question: Are there any creative ways I can use Apache NiFi to optimize my gaming PC's  performance? Whether it's improving network latency, automating system maintenance, or something entirely different, I'm open to suggestions.

I'd also appreciate any insights from fellow gamers who have experimented with NiFi in a gaming context. How has it worked for you? Any success stories, tips, or warnings to share?

Thanks in advance for your input! Looking forward to some innovative ideas.

Best regards,

Charlie

[#2]

@charliekat, Welcome to our community! To help you get the best possible answer, I have tagged in our NiFi experts @cotopaul @SAMSAL @MattWho who may be able to assist you further.

Please feel free to provide any additional information or details about your query, and we hope that you will find a satisfactory solution to your question.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@charliekat, this discussion is far from easy and most likely it will be a quite general one, with no specific answer to your question 🙂

There are plenty of things you could monitor and automate, starting from the CPU Usage, RAM Usage, CPU and RAM Temperature, I/O on your SSD, network packages and so on.

Directly from NiFi you won't be able to perform many tasks, as it was not created for such things. However, if you are good enough with PowerShell (Gamer=Windows in 95% cases) you can create some scripts and execute them directly in NiFi.

Now, depending on your script Output, you will call other scripts which will perform the desire action: like killing long running processes, or processes which are consuming to much CPU while you are gaming and so on.

These actions only represent around 5-10% of what you can do. The other 90-95% are actually related to your hardware: GPU, OS, SSD, Mouse(DPI), Screen(resolution+frame rate), Keyboard, Ethernet Connection, CPU and the overall Cooling System, Windows Updates , Game settings, GPU Updates and so on .... and unfortunately, for these actions, NiFi won't be much of a friend 😞

Nevertheless, don't take my answer as a discouragement, but take it as an action to prove me wrong and go play with NiFi and make something amazing 🙂