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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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Security by design enhanced by unified observability and security

Dynatrace

Since 2015, the Soldo business spend management platform has provided companies with a simple and efficient way to better spend and control company money. This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies.

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What is Azure Functions?

Dynatrace

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Instead of diving in arguing about specific points (which I partly did in my earlier post – start from The Future of Performance Testing if you are interested), I decided to talk to people who monetize on these “myths” So here is a virtual interview with Guillaume Betaillouloux , co-founder and Performance Director of OctoPerf.

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Vision and Execution Leader – 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM

Dynatrace

In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex. Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users. We knew APM was critical but no longer enough. We needed to go beyond APM.

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Zero Configuration Service Mesh with On-Demand Cluster Discovery

The Netflix TechBlog

In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! The abstractions that Eureka provides for this are Virtual IPs (VIPs) for insecure communication, and Secure VIPs (SVIPs) for secure. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post. This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

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