Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. 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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. 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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2006, Denis Defreyne tried to set up a Ruby-based blog platform and ran into performance problems — “Having a VPS with only 96 MB of RAM, any Ruby-based CMS ran extremely slowly.” Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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