Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 106

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And with today’s increasing financial, availability, performance and innovation requirements meaning applications need to be geographically dispersed to constantly changing dynamic powerhouses, it has become simply not possible to provision, update, monitor and decommissions them by only leveraging manual processes.

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Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 109

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

PBM is a fully-supported community backup tool capable of performing cluster-side consistent backups in MongoDB for replica sets and sharded clusters. Best practice tip : It is always advisable to use secondary servers for backups to avoid unnecessary performance degradation on the PRIMARY node. mongodump --host=mongodb1.example.net

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

As I discussed in my re:Invent keynote earlier this month, I am now happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon RDS Cross Region Read Replicas , which is another important enhancement for our customers using or planning to use multiple AWS Regions to deploy their applications. Cross Region Read Replicas are available for MySQL 5.6

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Cloud AWS Traffic Latency 147

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. Linux 4.15.0-66-generic

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache , a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Nov 17 - Scale and performance in a distributed file system , John H. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments (). Gray and David R.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was dropped to $0.00. The posting on the AWS developer blog also has some more background. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 30, 2014

We’ve seen these sorts of comparison before, and frankly claiming that you “might” not need jQuery is an awful innocent statement to make. In a presentation given at Velocity in 2011, Maximiliano Firtman pointed out that on some phones (older, but still popular, BlackBerry devices for example) can take up to 8 seconds just to parse jQuery.

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Mobile AWS Code Testing 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

We recently ran a series of load tests on Amazon ECS, and we wanted to share some of the performance characteristics customers should expect when building applications on Amazon ECS. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. Remind saw large performance increases (e.g.,

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Latency Architecture AWS Open Source 166

All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. Amazon S3 is used by enterprises of all sizes and is designed to handle scaling extremely well; it stores hundreds of billions of objects and easily performs several hundreds of thousands of storage transaction a second. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

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