Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that WER stands for Windows Error Reporting – the system that sends crash dumps back to Microsoft for analysis so that software reliability can be improved. To be clear, Microsoft has the technology to record traces on start menu hangs on customer machines. Correlation is not causation , but it sure is suspicious.

Programming 114

Programming Processing Code Performance 114

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.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Customers are frequently surprised to hear we have a Support organization that not only helps customers via email, phone, chat or web cases, but also builds innovative software to deliver better customer experiences. In 2012,AWS announced 159 new features and services.

AWS 134

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 134

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In 2012 Tom Tom launched a new Location Based Services (LBS) platform to give app developers easy access to its mapping content to be able to incorporate rich location based data into their applications. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

Cloud 130

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 130

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You’ve probably heard about Serverless Functions, but if you haven’t, Serverless Functions provide functionality typically associated with server-side technologies that can be implemented alongside front-end code without getting caught up in server-side infrastructures. Paul Scanlon. 2021-10-19T14:00:00+00:00. 2021-10-19T20:09:25+00:00.

Serverless 111

Serverless Cloud Website Servers 111

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. NPU: Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) has become a general name of AI chip rather than a brand name of a company.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

At the same time, open source software (OSS) libraries now account for more than 70% of most applications’ code base, increasing the risk of application vulnerabilities. In 2012, Gartner coined the term RASP to characterize this approach, which brings the security perimeter right to the application itself. Eliminate false positives.

Tuning 225

Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 225

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2012

The person hiding risk has a large informational advantage over the one looking for it. -- Nassim Taleb and George Martin, How to Prevent Other Financial Crises , SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2012 The interests of buyer and builder of any asset are fundamentally divergent. but most buyers are not experts at software or software development.

Hardware 45

Hardware Software Software Development 45

Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That reminded me of a snippet from the September 2012 issues of CACM. The article itself was about a different technology, but the Lessons Learned conclusion remind us of the paramount importance of two things: Backward compatibility with simple migration path (“compat”). The lightly annotated conclusion is shown here.

C++ 40

C++ Tuning Programming Engineering 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. CCS’19.

Internet 119

Internet Internet Open Source Transportation 119

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

These design principles led us to client-side load-balancing, and the 2012 Christmas Eve outage solidified this decision even further. These two technologies, alongside a host of other resiliency and chaos tools, made a massive difference: our reliability improved measurably as a result.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Strategic Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The 2010s were a turning-point in the history of software engineering. or “How do software architecture, domains, Conway’s Law, Team Topologies, and value streams all fit together?”. I discovered Kanban and WIP limits in 2012 and I’ve been a huge believer ever since. But it’s not like you can just sprinkle on WIP limits?

Software Architecture 98

Software Architecture Architecture DevOps Software 98

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

OpsWorks allows you to manage the complete application lifecycle, including resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, software updates, monitoring, and access control. OpsWorks is designed to support a wide variety of application architectures and can work with any software that has a scripted installation.

AWS 157

AWS Cloud Architecture Infrastructure 157

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. Now you could use GitHub as your CMS.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 9, 2019

Advocates of any technique or technology can be a bit heavy-handed when it suits them if they’re not being careful–myself included. Software teams can reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing, even if they don’t make devices themselves. It’s a fair question, I suppose. This isn’t just hyperbole.

Performance 111

Performance Energy Internet Internet 111

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.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

Hardware 40

Hardware Software Engineering Transportation Scalability 40

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. s Dynamo technology , which was one of the first non-relational databases developed at Amazon. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Understanding how mobile OSes undermine browser choice requires a nuanced understanding of OS and browser technology. The power dynamics of these situations are starkly different, even though "web technology" is used to render content in each case. It's no wonder that few commenters are connecting the dots. [2].

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. Older Intel processors are more vulnerable to these exploits, and they suffer more of a performance decrease from existing software and firmware-level fixes.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

ScaleOut Software

MAY 15, 2014

We have spent a great deal of time at ScaleOut Software re-architecting our in-memory data grid (IMDG)’s code base to make best use of many cores and large memory. GUI Based Management Is Crucial for Distributed Software. Testing Scale-Up Performance.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Network Design 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

Cloud 123

Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123

Alex Russell

AUGUST 20, 2015

Recall that in 2012, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and a host of other vendors were all shipping browsers based on a single CSS engine (WebKit) without changing the -webkit- prefixes to be vendor-specific ; e.g. Clearly, a need for new features trumps interoperability and pollution concerns. This is natural and, perhaps even healthy.

Programming 54

Programming Google Infrastructure Engineering 54