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. 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.

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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. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Vimeo also has a continually growing user base.

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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. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We have learned over time that we should not be afraid to develop our own hardware solutions to ensure our customers can achieve their goals.

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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. 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.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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