Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

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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. It then automatically calls in to that meeting and plays walk-off music similar to the Oscar’s to not-so-subtly encourage your colleagues to Get Out!

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Energy Java AWS Google 38

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

PMC analysis (2017). On the Netflix Java/Linux/EC2 stack there were no working mixed-mode flame graphs, no production safe dynamic tracer, and no PMCs: All tools I used extensively for advanced performance analysis. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014).

Java 142

Java Cloud Cache AWS 142

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage. Exhibit A: Java-related usage dropped by a noteworthy 13% between 2018 and 2019.

Software Architecture 145

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two. This is how Java flame graphs looked at the time. Later that year I prototyped the c2 frame pointer fix that became -XX:+PreserveFramePointer, which fixes Java stacks in these profiles.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture.

Java 52

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