Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

AWS re:Invent is just over one week away—as I prepare to head to Vegas, I’m pumped up about the chance to interact with AWS-powered startups from around the world. The AWS Startup Pavilion [Tuesday – Thursday]. This panel will include: Tracy DiNunzio, Founder & CEO, Tradesy. Michael DeAngelo, Deputy CIO, State of Washington.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

We built this hack using Java (Springboot framework), the Google OAuth and Calendar APIs (for finding rooms) and Twilio API (for calling into the meeting), and deployed it on AWS. Thanks to all the teams who put together a great round of hacks in 24 hours.

Energy 38

Energy Java AWS Google 38

High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

That same company leased 35 megawatts from us in 2016. Matt Alderman : Based on our estimates, AWS Fargate deployments should save you 5 percent to 10 percent in your compute bill as compared to highly optimized AWS ECS or EKS deployments. The decimal place moved by a column. The next decimal place will move in 2022.

Internet 135

Internet Internet Scalability AWS 135

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Teams of university students can submit applications now and the contest will conclude at AWS re:Invent in November 2017, where the winners will be announced. Up to ten teams will be sponsored by Amazon and receive a $100,000 stipend, Alexa-enabled devices, free AWS services and support from the Alexa team.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare AWS Government 111

Adrian Cockcroft

MAY 23, 2022

I joined Amazon in October 2016, as a VP in AWS Marketing focused on building relationships with customers. I keynoted 20 AWS Summits around the world, presented on technical and management topics at many events, and hired the open source community engagement team.

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IoT AWS Open Source Design 98

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On September 29, 2016, Amazon announced the Alexa Prize , a $2.5 These teams will each receive a $100,000 research grant as a stipend, Alexa-enabled devices, free Amazon Web Services (AWS) services to support their development efforts, access to new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) APIs, and support from the Alexa team.

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Entertainment AWS Testing Engineering 104

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

As digital transformation escalates, vulnerabilities are increasing as well, by more than 290% since 2016. Shift-Left with Dynatrace: Automating Performance Feedback with AWS, Mesos and Containers – blog Andi Grabner had an opportunity to speak with a customer working in the financial sector. Learn more with the 2022 InfoSec guide.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 246

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

Apart from developing tools, much of my time has been spent helping teams with performance issues and evaluations.

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Java Cloud Cache AWS 142

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. How does negative work happen?

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Development AWS Code Software 79

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 89

Database Design Cloud Storage 89

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 22, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter", which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S. The source is: #!/usr/local/bin/bpftrace

C++ 85

C++ Education Java AWS 85

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 For the purposes of the test I turned PQ on and off (normally AWS Aurora uses its own heuristics to determine if the PQ will be helpful or not): Turn on and force: mysql> set session aurora_pq = 1; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 71

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

LTS (April 2016). I wrote about it in a previous post, [DTrace for Linux 2016]. I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. The hardest part on Linux is now done: kernel support. It's the official profiler.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. strength: -46 strength: -46 strength: -45 strength: -45 [.]

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

For my AWS re:Invent talk on BPF Performance Analysis at Netflix, I began with a demo of "BPF superpowers" (aka eBPF). Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S. The source is: #!/usr/local/bin/bpftrace

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 18, 2016

UPDATE 2016-12-25: This post has an important follow-up. One example of this is an awful developer that was once at the same company as me. At some point in every software developer’s career, we work with someone who does negative work. The notion of negative work may sound a little strange. How does negative work happen?

Development 40

Development AWS Code Software 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. MongoDB Enterprise editions and MongoDB Atlas — which integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — are not free. Is MongoDB free for commercial use? Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

With Luminary’s 21 years of experience in the digital space, my experience of 17 years in the CMS space as well as our focus on Headless since 2016, here are my two cents on what you should look out for. Similarly, when it comes to procuring infrastructure, you can choose to host your site on Netlify, Azure, GCP or AWS. Omnichannel.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

I started writing “ Serverless Architectures ” in May 2016. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless AWS API Gateway , and its associated tooling, has got much, much better.

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Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

Sydney has AWS and Google offices and even a small Netflix office, just to name a few. Why move to Australia?]: [link] [headline]: [link] [Systems Performance 2nd Edition]: /systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html [SRE oncall]: /blog/2016-05-04/srecon2016-perf-checklists-for-sres.html ?:

Google 40

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Chaos engineering matured at organizations such as Netflix, and gave rise to technologies such as Gremlin (2016) , becoming more targeted and knowledge-based. The history of chaos engineering.

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Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

SQL Performance

MARCH 20, 2020

In SQL Server 2016, STRING_SPLIT solved a long-missing gap in a language that, admittedly, was not intended for complicated string processing. For years before SQL Server 2016 (and for years since), we've written our own versions, improved them over time, and even argued about whose was fastest.

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