Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

I'm thrilled to be joining Intel to work on the performance of everything, apps to metal, with a focus on cloud computing. My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. Pensive relies on a regular expression based rules engine that has been curated over time. What’s Next? But our job is nowhere near done.

Big Data 242

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. S3 on AWS). As the saying goes, ‘all snowflakes are special’ – but what is it exactly that’s special about this one?

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

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Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. Step #4: Extend monitoring beyond Dynatrace OneAgent.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

I'm thrilled to be joining Intel to work on the performance of everything, apps to metal, with a focus on cloud computing. My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Cloud certifications were by far the most popular.

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Azure Programming AWS Social Media 145

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For many companies, the journey to modern cloud applications starts with serverless. Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 114

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 109

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At Dynatrace we host most of our Dynatrace SaaS clusters for paying customers as well as trial users in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) Team at Dynatrace has an important role to play in that offering. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%!

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Infrastructure Cloud Monitoring AWS 176

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 120

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Jack and his engineers have created a safe social app for teachers and students. hands freeÃ? and took near zero development effort.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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 Ford, et al., “TCP

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

More than 90% of enterprises now rely on a hybrid cloud infrastructure to deliver innovative digital services and capture new markets. That’s because cloud platforms offer flexibility and extensibility for an organization’s existing infrastructure. What is hybrid cloud architecture?

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 173

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

Cloud 133

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 133

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People often ask me if developing for the cloud is any different from developing on-premises software. The Amazon Redshift team has delivered remarkable gains using a few simple engineering techniques: Leveraging fleet telemetry. Note: You need valid AWS credentials to access the public S3 data. It really is.

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Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 131

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

Dynatrace is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, so it’s easy to integrate Dynatrace with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for a wide range of AWS services. Dynatrace news.

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Design AWS Education Innovation 139

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e., Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites. are you logged in? what plan do you have? what do you want to watch?)

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

As an engineer, I can work anywhere with a standard laptop as long as I have an IDE and access to Stack Overflow. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. Now that you know why, here is how we did it.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain.

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 174

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. What Exactly is Greenplum? over Greenplum 5.

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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 124

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. DynamoDB Streams.

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Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

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