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.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Detailed query-level waits are available on demand via integrated Plan Explorer. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. Primitives not frameworks.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. ​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. KB ​​ boundaries efficiently. ​​ All rights reserved.

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