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. 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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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. But how does FaaS fit in? Functional FaaS best practices.

Development 251

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 251

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. 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.

Virtualization 40

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

Azure 42

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Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

The main improvement MSLs give is that a program data race will not corrupt the language’s own virtual machine (whereas in C++ a data race is currently all-bets-are-off undefined behavior). That’s pretty easy to statically guarantee, except for some cases of the unused parts of lazily constructed array/vector storage.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, A subset ( element.animate() ) has enabled developers to more easily create high-performance visual effects with lower risk of visual stuttering in Chrome and Firefox since 2014. Service Workers.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I've suggested adding a command to docker to make listing at least the top-level PIDs in containers easier. ## Virtual Machines The two main technologies on Linux are Xen and KVM (and there's Bhyve for BSD). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory?

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and storing the events in a table requires reading the events, streaming to table storage followed by an order by event sequence query. protected virtual void Dispose(bool bDisposing) { if (true == bDisposing) { m_MatchingTree.Dispose(); m_MatchingTree = null; if (null != Start(); }.

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