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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 look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. This extension was built from scratch to take into account all we’ve learned and the special requirements for monitoring ephemeral, auto-scaling, micro VMs like AWS Lambda.

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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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What is function as a service? App development gets FaaS and furious

Dynatrace

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. The FaaS model of cloud computing debuted in 2014 with startups like hook.io. Because a third party manages part of the infrastructure, IT teams give up a measure of control over system architecture. Increased testing complexity.

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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. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. How long does it take to read the time?

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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What is Kubernetes? Orchestrating the world at the age of a first grader

Dynatrace

Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ? How do you make this system resilient and fault-tolerant? Cloud-native?

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