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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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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

While you may assume a great majority of the cloud database deployments are run on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, small to medium-sized businesses in particular are gravitating towards the developer-friendly cloud provider, DigitalOcean , for their hosting for MongoDB® needs. Monitoring Performance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Red Hat OpenShift is a cloud-based Kubernetes platform that helps developers build applications. It offers automated installation, upgrades, and life cycle management throughout the container stack — the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications — on any cloud. Dynatrace news. What is OpenShift? The result?

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Speed Curve

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences. What does this finding mean in web performance terms?

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Cloud Deployments. Can be deployed on any cloud provider, with a variety of PostgreSQL hosting solutions available. What’s causing this massive shift? The unstoppable rise of open source databases. Oracle Ease of Use.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 24, 2019

ScaleGrid is no novice when it comes to deploying and managing complex, sharded clusters in the cloud, as they have provided one of the most powerful sharding tools for their MongoDB hosting solutions since 2013. High Performance. Secure the same level of high-performance as standalone Redis deployments. Native Solution.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 6, 2021

Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Improving The Performance Of Shopify Themes (Case Study). Code evolves over time with more features, new or changing dependencies, or maybe a goal of performance improvements. Better performance across the board. Carson Shold. 2021-05-06T11:00:00+00:00.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

According to the 2020 Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey , 92 percent of organizations are using containers in production, and 83 percent of these use Kubernetes as their preferred container management solution. This simplifies orchestration in cloud-native environments. Dynatrace news.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 19, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Now that's a cloud! Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 2080 Ti destroys V100 / Titan V on performance per dollar.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 7, 2013

Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. You can now use these new features to define the permissions your AWS IAM users (and applications) have to perform actions on specific or groups of Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS resources. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Organizations across Italy have been using the AWS Cloud for over a decade, using AWS Regions located outside of Italy. We have offices in Rome and Milan, where we continue to help Italian customers of all sizes move to the AWS Cloud. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing AWS OpsWorks, a Powerful Application Management Solution. By Werner Vogels on 18 February 2013 11:30 PM. OpsWorks enables you to automate management actions so that they are performed automatically and reliably. All Things Distributed. Comments (). Automate tasks.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB. By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ?? While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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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.

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Percona

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To understand this better let’s see what happens when we perform any DDL operation in a binary log-based replication environment and in the Aurora replication environment. If you are performing frequent DDL operations in your database, it is not recommended to take logical backups from Aurora Reader. Trying to reconnect.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.)

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Vitaly Friedman.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

People won’t even waste a chance to leave a negative review if they found a little error in the app, whether it’s performance glitches, a weak user interface, or a crash. The testing of mobile apps includes testing their functionality, performance, loading, security, and usability. For cost reduction.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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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

MAY 22, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 22 May 2013 08:30 AM. s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. ve talked about performance and availability in Amazon Redshift before. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). s no surprise â??

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Good ol’ PerfPlanet is back for another season with all things speed and web performance. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the calendar , so do feel free to reach out with a topic or tool you’re passionate about, or a technique you’d like to teach and tell the web performance community about. Stoyan Stefanov on Twitter. WEB????????

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Please support me on Patreon and you'll get 100 free cloud credits in heaven. Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. @mipsytipsy #CloudNativeLondon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. $2

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2020

I wrote about this in 2013 in a two-part series on conflict. Engage a captive technical audit function or an external vendor with no connection whatsoever to a program of work to perform audits and peer reviews of tests, code, and team practices. Vendors have many more problems to try to export to their customers.

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

blocking), discarding data, or none—which can lead to resilience problems, poor performance, or worse: rapid unscheduled disassembly in production. To address the problem of flow control, an initiative called reactive streams was created in late 2013 to “provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure.”.

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