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. Storage I/O. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Networking. Networking.

Tuning 61

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 61

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. Storage I/O. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. File System. Networking. Networking.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

. $40 million : Netflix monthly spend on cloud services; 5% : retention increase can increase profits 25%; 50+% : Facebook's IPv6 traffic from the U.S, using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers. Public sector.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I spoke about the performance differences in my 2014 SCALE keynote "What Linux can learn from Solaris performance and vice-versa" ([slides]) where the conclusion was that Linux may run faster out of the box, but I could typically make Solaris run much faster thanks to optimizations found using DTrace.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76