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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The AMI and boot are now HVM. Impressive!

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

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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. The AMI and boot are now HVM. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. SQL was the right choice because it was an established and proven technology for use in similar environments, and the massive knowledge base that exists around it. Comments ().

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. A silver lining on this dark cloud is that mobile JavaScript payload growth paused in 2020.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Expanding the Cloud â?? By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Today, we are excited to announce the limited preview of Amazon Redshift , a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. I look forward to seeing how our customers put this technology to work. Comments ().

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

.” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Cloud computing? ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. ” (It will be easier to fit in the overhead storage.) Next up is compute power.

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Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

We are rapidly entering into an era where massive computing power, digital storage and global network connections can be deployed by anyone as quickly and easily as turning on the lights. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123