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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. I spent years as a cloud customer where I couldn't access many HW-level things.) The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Google not only crawled and indexed virtually every page on the web, it looked at how sites linked to each other, tracked which of the ten top links it showed were clicked on the most, which ones led people to come back and try another and which sent them away satisfied. These companies did continue to innovate.

Social Media 106

Social Media Google Internet Internet 106

KeyCDN

MARCH 28, 2019

Features Simple and fast routing engine Comes with its own CLI Powerful template system (Blade) Good documentation CakePHP CakePHP is one of the first PHP frameworks to be released back in 2005. Since then, it has come a long way and is now known as a modern PHP framework made to allow developers to build quickly.

Programming 77

Programming Website Scalability Design 77

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. They can be also useful when a single value of demand is desired, such as for a cloud auto scaling rule. I've never seen an explanation.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

A contract from 2005 between one firm and another is a binding legal document in the context of that relationship. Data has different meaning depending the context. Historically, Information Technology has focused on the "technology".

Storage 40

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