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

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". 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? We achieve 5.5

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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

JULY 19, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Expanding The Cloud â?? Comments (). Earlier this year I attended a panel on â??Scaling

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service? By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. ve spent much of my time traveling around the world speaking about distributed systems. Comments (). Over the past several years Iâ??ve

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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

AUGUST 17, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services.

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Architecture AWS Internet Internet 95

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. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying. NoSQL and Scale.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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 ().

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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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Speed Cache Latency AWS 121

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

JUNE 21, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. After only two months, customers had already provisioned enough capacity to perform hundreds of billions of requests per day.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Developers implement workers to perform tasks. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Cloud AWS Java Scalability 130

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 25 September 2012 06:00 PM. Customers can provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) per database instance to help ensure that their databases can run the most stringent workloads with rock solid, consistent performance.

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Cloud AWS Storage Database 117

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Virginia) Region, with additional AWS Regions planned for the coming months. ve written at length about how Amazon Redshift achieves high performance. Amazon Redshift uses local attached storage to deliver high IO performance. Comments ().

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Design AWS Storage Systems 110

All Things Distributed

MAY 13, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. AWS Region for the origin fetch.

Cache 117

Cache Latency AWS Website 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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). Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Innovation AWS Education Network 146

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 104

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??t All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). t read data from columns it doesnâ??t

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139