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. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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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. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Donovan Fritz and Joel Kodama (networking) A Day in the Life of a Cloud Network Engineer at Netflix.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Please check out a new blog post I created detailing how SQL Server 2017 is Fast, Built-In. And we are the fastest database everywhere you need it: On the planet or in the cloud. Look for more details on my blog post and the SQL Server Blog about some of these concepts and new features for performance for SQL Server 2017.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Serverless Insights of 2017! re:Invent re:View AWS re:Invent was the expected cloud-fest of mind-boggling proportions. We survived intact, and in fact had a wonderful time meeting with a lot of fellow cloud enthusiasts. This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

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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. Impressive! 0% performance overhead.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

it’s increasingly becoming a core compute element within the larger Amazon cloud. Cloud9 is, at its most simple, a cloud hosted IDE. We haven’t tried out SAR yet since it was only pre-announced, but when we do we’ll give an update here, on the blog. It’s no longer a niche technology for enthusiasts?—?it’s We’re the experts!

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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. Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon"). Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2019

contributed the containerd container runtime to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2017. The CNCF introduced the dedicated category Observability and Analysis to their project landscape to cover all things related to the monitoring of cloud-native stacks. Dynatrace news. Docker, Inc. So stay tuned.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. heipei : It's Friday, I've been in a jumpsuit doing manual labor all day (crazy, I know) and weighing my options between passing out on the couch over some Youtube videos, reading the Friday @highscal blog post or writing code.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And while the concept is not new, the disruptions of cloud transformation and increasing time-to-market pressures shine a bright light on its many downsides. Technical Debt—Dilbert Comic Strip on 2017-01-03. The post Intellectual debt: The hidden costs of machine learning appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. Road to Implementation We began work to enable user namespaces in early 2017.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Setting up deployment on a specific cloud provider or an environment will result in the same configuration as if the same deployment was targeted towards a different cloud provider or another environment. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html

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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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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017. In 2017, Intel Movidius announces its latest generation VPU, named Myriad X.

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. In this blog, we deep dive into the various aspects of mobile website testing, including the tools that can accelerate the testing process. Automation Testing on a scalable and secure Cloud. CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Circle CI, etc.).

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) . from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) showing the technological revolutions, with added overlay to show the events that initiated each of the Turning Points . Cloud software will become more central to both social and professional connectivity.

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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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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. The queries are similar to those I’ve used in older blog posts comparing MySQL and Apache Spark performance ( [link] ). With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6)

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

I wrote a blog in 2016 that discussed the need for businesses to flip the traditional monitoring investment pyramid on its head. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. The Rise of Cloud Computing. Cloud services also enable the business to focus on its core competencies.

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 6, 2019

There’s a good high-level overview of federated learning on Google’s AI blog. Devices download the current model, improve it by learning using data local to the phone, and then send a small focused model update back to the cloud, where it is averaged with other user updates to improve the shared model. ” Secure Aggregation.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html [unused]: [link] [unused2]: [link]

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Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report , those organizations that have employed DevOps practices spend 21 percent less time on unplanned work and rework, and 44 percent more time on new work which leads to higher efficiency. The post Why DevOps is Important for Modern Businesses appeared first on Testsigma Blog. Schedule a demo.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

To make it easier for you, in this blog, we will discuss the latest web development trends that will evolve in 2022. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). 2) Hardware limitations Disk and memory are inexpensive nowadays.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

First introduced in SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Edition, an adaptive join enables a runtime transition from a batch mode hash join to a row mode correlated nested loops indexed join (apply) at runtime. Limited amounts of memory and sluggish I/O won’t be entirely unfamiliar to users of lower-end cloud-based database engines, for example.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel prize in Economics for his work on Behavioral Economics. The same myopic view clouds us as researchers. Disclaimer: These posts are written by individual contributors to share their thoughts on the Computer Architecture Today blog for the benefit of the community.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. On the other hand I’m more convinced that for automated testing we should just be using real cloud environments. Lambda and Azure functions both now offer some amount of local-integration testing.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

they launched in October 2017, and were founded by people with experience at Nest (thermostats) and August (locks). While it’s still new to the market, I thought it was worth a try, so over the last few weeks I installed it, and thought it was still novel enough to be worth writing up as a blog post.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

at re:Invent 2017. AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. It was launched to the public in February and I’ve been digging into it since.

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