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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.

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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work? But how does FaaS fit in?

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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). 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. PMC analysis (2017).

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. Storage I/O. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. Storage I/O. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.