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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

It automates complex tasks during the container’s life cycle, such as provisioning, deployment, networking, scaling, load balancing, and more. Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes.

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

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What is OpenShift? And how to make OpenShift monitoring easy

Dynatrace

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. Microservices architecture combines loosely-coupled functions to create high-performing applications. OpenShift 3.0

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a Software 2.0 design

The Morning Paper

Software 2.0 , in case you missed it, is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy to describe software in which key components are implemented by neural networks. The existing system was based on a rule-based architecture with hand-crafted rules and had been in production since 2013. ’ design. " Switching to a Software 2.0

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.