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. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory.

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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. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. since 2017, and many customers have used it with great success while we collected requirements for the next iteration of our Lambda extension. A look under the hood of AWS Lambda.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 224

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Later that year (2014), Anthony Liguori from AWS gave a [re:Invent talk] recommending users switch the clocksource to tsc to improve performance. At least AWS have now included it in their recommendations.

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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). It can be menu driven or automated.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. —?which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 80