Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018? They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 3B this year, $4B next year. Debt skyrocketing.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 19, 2012

High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2012 12:00 AM. AWS customers are bringing their most demanding workloads onto the cloud. These include the likes of high performance computation, for which we introduced the Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU instance types. Expanding The Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, complex, fascinating problems to be solved in the area of distributed computing.

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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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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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. address[0].city.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3. But since this article is about connecting an application running on the server with AWS S3, we don’t consider this solution. Leonardo Losoviz. 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. Creating The Bucket.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. These are the people working behind the scenes helping customers fully leverage all of AWS’s capabilities when running their infrastructure on AWS.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

You can add DAX to your existing DynamoDB applications with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console – no application rewrites required. DynamoDB has come a long way in the 5 years since we announced its availability in January 2012. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage. Saving crucial milliseconds.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Following the huge success of being able to provision a consistent, user-requested I/O rate for DynamoDB and Elastic Block Store (EBS), the AWS Database Services team has now released Provisioned IOPS, a new high performance storage option for the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).

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Cloud AWS Storage Database 118

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Often an application consists of several different tasks to be performed in particular sequence driven by a set of dynamic conditions. Developers implement workers to perform tasks.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. ve already passed our 2012 targets. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. These performance optimizations are available for all types of content (static and dynamic) delivered via CloudFront. Selecting the best AWS region for Origin Fetch. AWS Region for the origin fetch. All Things Distributed.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As you may remember from our announcement at re: Invent in November 2012, Amazon Redshift is a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that delivers fast query performance at less than one tenth the cost of most traditional data warehouse systems. Performance is important, but it just doesnâ??t

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Design AWS Storage Systems 112

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper.

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AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 November 2012 03:00 PM. Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon Redshift enables customers to obtain dramatically increased query performance when analyzing datasets ranging in size from hundreds of gigabytes to a petabyte or more, using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. Comments (). Amazon Redshiftâ?? Amazon.comâ??s

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast performance at any scale. Any downtime or performance degradation in these services has an immediate financial impact and their fault-tolerance and performance requirements for their data systems are very strict.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.” 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.”

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