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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. 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. Huge Pages.

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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. 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. Huge Pages.

Tuning 52
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SQL Server 2017 generally available on October 2nd…

SQL Server According to Bob

Scott Guthrie and Rohan Kumar officially made the announcement today at Ignite that SQL Server 2017 will be generally available on October 2nd, 2017. Check out ScottGu’s blog post at: [link]. Rohan’s Blog post at: Microsoft for the Modern Data Estate. Read his article at: [link].

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Experience SQL Server 2017: The Fast and the Furious

SQL Server According to Bob

Please check out a new blog post I created detailing how SQL Server 2017 is Fast, Built-In. How we keep you fast and tuned with Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning. 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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Working at Netflix 2017

Brendan Gregg

As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. For Linux, I've also done tuning, kernel analysis, [gdb], testing of [hist triggers], testing of some perf patches, and contributed a few trivial patches of my own. eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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Get automated full-stack visibility into containerd-based Kubernetes environments

Dynatrace

contributed the containerd container runtime to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2017. So stay tuned. The post Get automated full-stack visibility into containerd-based Kubernetes environments appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. Docker, Inc.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

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.