There are numerous configuration flags, gFlags in YugabyteDB, which allow you to fine tune the core database services yb-master and yb-tserver. Several examples include use_node_to_node_encryption, yb_num_shards_per_tserver and client_read_write_timeout_ms.
To quickly view a value of a particular gFlags, you can curl the Master (Port 7000) and T-Server (Port 9000) UIs, then grep the name of the gFlag.