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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) handles compute, storage, and network resources. How does function as a service work? But how does FaaS fit in?

Development 256

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 256

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Virtual Memory. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Virtual Memory. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

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 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. . Who manage s the networking aspects? But how will you set up the communication?

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Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132