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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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

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. Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Comments (). The software that powers todayâ??s

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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 (). Contact Info.

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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

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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All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 14 May 2012 12:01 AM. The first set of features that CloudFront is launching today include: Multiple Origin Servers: the ability to specify multiple origin servers, including a default origin, for a CloudFront download distribution. Of course non-AWS origins are also permitted. All Things Distributed.

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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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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. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. Ben and Mena Trott created MovableType because of a “Dissatisfacion with existing blog CMSes — performance, stability.”

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