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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

SQL Server relies on Forced-Unit-Access (Fua) I/O subsystem capabilities to provide data durability, detailed in the following documents: SQL Server 2000 I/O Basic and SQL Server I/O Basics, Chapter 2. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. 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. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

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Top 8 Best Backend Frameworks

KeyCDN

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. Many popular server-side and full stack frameworks use Express such as Feathers, KeystoneJS, MEAN, Sails, and more.

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Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery

Brendan Gregg

If they are higher than your CPU count, then you might have a performance problem (it depends). The oldest change in the entire Linux repo dates back to 2005, when Linus imported Linux 2.6.12-rc2, Thankfully, I found some older linux-devel mailing list archives, rescued from server backups, often stored as tarballs of digests.

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