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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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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Moving my US tech job to Australia

Brendan Gregg

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. There is also a wider variety of roles available.

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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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

This would open up opportunities to leverage existing performance monitoring tools and dashboards, extend optimization tools like autoscalers and schedulers, and to build new kinds of carbon analysis and optimization tools and services. I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization.

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. Leonardo Losoviz. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00.

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Moving my US tech job to Australia

Brendan Gregg

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. There is also a wider variety of roles available.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” MovableType really was before its time.

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