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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

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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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

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? How do AWS Lambda functions impact monitoring?

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

In a model for others to follow, the Caddy web server will automatically provision Let’s Encrypt certificates. Apache and Nginx remain the most popular Let’s Encrypt using web servers deployed in the wild though. Continuous availability via the facility to run multiple redundant instances of each function in parallel.

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. I see people think like a programmer instead and feel they must start by learning bcc and BPF programming in depth. That will be a quick and useful version 1.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? How would you _time_ time?

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Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 framework

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online. SVT-AV1 uses parallelization at several stages of the encoding process, which allows it to adapt to the number of available cores including newest servers with significant core count.