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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

The challenge is that accurate data isn’t available immediately, and cloud providers currently only provide monthly carbon data, with several months lag. I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. At the one minute granularity security concerns are minimized.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

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.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

© ​​ 2006 ​​ Microsoft Corporation. ​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. 2006-01-01 ?