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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers. Kubernetes Also developed in 2014 and often referred to as K8s, Kubernetes has emerged as a de facto standard for container orchestration, surpassing Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos in popularity.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. Likewise, attacks on open source libraries have increased.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers.

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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

MachMetrics

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. Source: Google Blog. These are typically implemented automatically by the hosting company servers.

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