Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! CXL in a way allows a custom memory controller to be added to a system, to increase memory capacity, bandwidth, and overall performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. Owning your own hardware is extremely inflexible, you have to over-scale and plan for peak demand and if you make a mistake with the type of hardware you are stuck with it. All Things Distributed.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

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. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or your favorite query editor to connect to a SQL Server 2012 or 2014 instance. On the same hardware/machine repeat steps 1 thru 3 using an instance of SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.0 Note: You may need to execute the dbcc a second time so buffer cache is hot, eliminating I/O sub-system variants.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

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. All Things Distributed. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. Comments ().

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The predominant desktop situation is relatively straightforward: Browsers handle links, and non-browsers defer loading http and https URLs to the system, which in turn invokes the default browser. Instead, they load content referred by their hosting native app in system-provided WebViews. Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

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 ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167