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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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

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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.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

With a myriad of options available out there, we have compiled a list of top frontend frameworks out there to help you out. Many front end frameworks are available in different languages. Of all the available technologies, JavaScript popularity has shot up exponentially. Let’s begin!! Let’s get to the pros and cons.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. The metrics available in eye-tracking can vary from tool to tool. Source: Oculid) ( Large preview ).

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Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

Smashing Magazine

When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. After the file is uploaded to a server on step 1, the file must be available to whichever server handles the request for steps 2 and 3, which may or may not be the same one for step 1.

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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. How Availability Zones have changed over the years.

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