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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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Virtual consensus in Delos

The Morning Paper

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. The virtual CPU is turned off. Lambda functions often serve as a gluing tier or a gateway from on-premises systems to AWS services; they’re almost never standalone.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0

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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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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

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. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).