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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk.

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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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html How long does it take to read the time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html [unused]: [link] [unused2]: [link]

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Search for recent blog posts on Linux containers, and try them out, and you'll piece together their capabilities and workings bit by bit. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey. Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded.

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