Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda? The Amazon Web Services ecosystem.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. For a more recent example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 Our previous BPF GUI was part of [Vector], and used bcc, but we've since deprecated that.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. Scalable Video Technology (SVT) is Intel’s open source framework that provides high-performance software video encoding libraries for developers of visual cloud technologies. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Networking. tcp_wmem = 4096 12582912 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A cloud-wide monitoring tool, Atlas, showed a high rate of paging for the larger file uploads: The blue is pageins (page ins). total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64414 15421 349 5 48643 48409 Swap: 0 0 0. total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 64414 18421 11218 5 34773 45407 Swap: 0 0 0.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

At Dynatrace we host most of our Dynatrace SaaS clusters for paying customers as well as trial users in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The Autonomous Cloud Enablement (ACE) Team at Dynatrace has an important role to play in that offering. Since we moved to AWS in May 2014 we have had an availability of 99.95%!

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. But in 2013 and 2014, it remained stuck at 83% , and while in the ten years since, it has reached 95% , it had become clear that the easy money that came from acquiring more users was ending.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Bootcamps you can register for include: “Getting Started with AWS,” “AWS Essentials,” “Highly Available Apps,” and “Taking AWS Operations to the Next Level.”. When: October 1, 2014 at 6:30 -8:00 PM. Tom will also share the role that Cloud Computing has played in the exploration of space in the last decade and where we are heading next.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 Our previous BPF GUI was part of [Vector], and used bcc, but we've since deprecated that. at the time.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

In Google I/O’17, Google announced its cloud TPU (also known as TPU2), which can handle both training and inference. In 2014, Google’s Project Tango deployed Myriad1 to construct 3D indoor maps. Comprehensive lists are available here and here. . About the author: Yuan Xie is a professor in the ECE department at UCSB.

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Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

There's no point in recommending a better browser because none is available. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. In 2014, Apple would have enjoyed a profit margin of 50% if it had spent half a billion on browser engineering. Cui bono? —

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The project is available in twenty languages, and encourages all kinds of contributions to open-source projects — including non-pull-request contributions. Lean UXMas has been publishing each advent since 2014 and is a collection of the most popular articles from this year’s Agile and Lean UX latest news. 24 Pull Requests.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right).

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

A cloud-wide monitoring tool, Atlas, showed a high rate of paging for the larger file uploads: The blue is pageins (page ins). cachestat]: /blog/2014-12-31/linux-page-cache-hit-ratio.html [60-second performance checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [bcc]: [link] Nothing odd here. ## 5. 41 33680 53408 0 78 100.0%

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

The industry’s move to dynamic, multicloud, and hybrid-cloud environments, which produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data, has increased cloud complexity, and brought the need for automation and intelligence, in addition to observability, to the forefront. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. With this launch, AWS now provides 60 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions expected to come online by 2020 in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong, and Milan. " Hemnet.

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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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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

The industry’s move to dynamic, multicloud, and hybrid-cloud environments, which produce an immense volume, velocity, and variety of data, has increased cloud complexity, and brought the need for automation and intelligence, in addition to observability, to the forefront. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace.

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DevOps Innovation Speed Infrastructure 162

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Checking those available: $ cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource. How would you _time_ time?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. a relatively old Angular 1.x x to React w/ Semantic UI.

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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. This recommendation quickly became out of date. Impressive!

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018. As a result, we have opened 42 Availability Zones across 16 AWS Regions worldwide. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. How long does it take to read the time? How would you time time?

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Speed Java AWS 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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. This recommendation quickly became out of date. Impressive!

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Although some vendors have added support for APIs and cloud services most have not even bothered to adapt with changing technology landscape. In addition, traditional CMS solutions lack integration with modern software stack, cloud services, and software delivery pipelines. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The master server uses what’s called a declarative plan to run applications most efficiently using the available infrastructure.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not.

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Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. They can be also useful when a single value of demand is desired, such as for a cloud auto scaling rule. I've never seen an explanation.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. Modern network performance and availability. Here begins our 2021 adventure.

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