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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

This orchestration includes provisioning, scheduling, networking, ensuring availability, and monitoring container lifecycles. Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. Virtual Memory. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. schedtool –B PID. vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. Virtual Memory. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. schedtool –B PID. vm.swappiness = 0 # from 60.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part 1)

The Morning Paper

In the next post we’ll look at the detailed analysis of how a team at Etsy handled a particular incident on December 4th 2014, to see what we can learn from it. The organisations that build and operate these systems are themselves often geographically distributed and communicating virtually. Why is this even a thing?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. In 2014, Google’s Project Tango deployed Myriad1 to construct 3D indoor maps. FPU: Floating Processing Unit (FPU).