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. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. -

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

DevOps and Continuous delivery: R evolution in the process, the way people and organizations delivering software work . Who manage s the networking aspects? Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native?

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

DevOps and Continuous delivery: R evolution in the process, the way people and organizations delivering software work . Who manage s the networking aspects? Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native?

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

The best request is the one that never happens: in the fight for fast websites, avoiding the network is far better than hitting the network at all. Any asset that carries the no-store directive will always hit the network, no matter what. How is your knowledge of caching and Cache-Control headers? Now we’d use no-store.

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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. Networking. Networking. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Monal Daxini Netflix Keystone SPaaS: Real-time Stream Processing as a Service. -

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Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. QAOps is a term derived by combining the two processes – the DevOps and QA into one. When we fuse QA into the DevOps process the newly integrated process is called QAOps. Signup now.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. BPU: Brain Processing Unit is the design of the AI chips by Horizon Robotics. They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Thanks to progress in networks and browsers (but not devices), a more generous global budget cap has emerged for sites constructed the "modern" way: ~100KiB of HTML/CSS/fonts and ~300-350KiB of JS (compressed) is the new rule-of-thumb limit for at least the next year or two. Modern network performance and availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Let’s Encrypt was publically announced on November 18th 2014, and began providing service to the public on Decemmber 3rd 2015. In late 2014, it secured financial commitments from Akamai, Cisco, EFF, and Mozilla, allowing the organization to purchase equipment, secure hosting contracts, and pay initial staff.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

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 Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] , 2021 [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] , Apr 2021 [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al.,

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. AWS EC2 uses a different image type and boot process for PV and HVM, as described on the [Linux AMI Virtualization Types] page. The first was c3.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

World-class experts in graphics, networking, cryptography, databases, language design, VM implementation, security, usability (particularly usable security), power management, compilers, fonts, high-performance layout, codecs, real-time media, audio and video pipelines, and per- OS specialisation are required. They do not.

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ACM Sigarch

MARCH 18, 2019

an instruction or network transaction). Assume that your organization processes travel reimbursements and wants to know the average processing time (latency). He is a fellow of IEEE and the ACM, serves as Chair of the Computer Community Consortium (2018-20) and served as Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department Chair 2014-17.

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. But over time, something went very wrong. The market was maturing. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Although a beta version was released in 2014, the first stable release of Kubernetes was just made available in September 2018. The result was Kubernetes, which allows developers to create and manage “clusters” of physical and virtual machines in order to coordinate cooperation via a shared network.

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1, Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years. Gamepad API. Delayed three years [8].

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

MARCH 25, 2019

Assume that a computer must handle network packets arriving unscheduled at a rate R = 10 packets/second with a goal of handling each packet with a total latency (including waiting) of L = 100 ms. How long can the computer take to process (service) each packet (not counting waiting), denoted S?

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. Processed 4.15 Processed 4.15 Processed 8.19 Processed 8.19 Processed 4.15 Processed 3.05

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Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2015

Companies looking to these regions for their next billion users need to keep in mind that these users are on underpowered phones over slow networks with high data costs. Here’s Kadlec’s related talk from Velocity 2014 in New York: The path to performance. Reaching everyone. So, how do you get your entire team excited by it?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

This measures demand, which can be greater than what the system is currently processing. 42/3411 43603. . ## History The original load averages show only CPU demand: the number of processes running plus those waiting to run. The load average is an average of the number of runnable processes over a given time period.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

It originated as Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended (aka eBPF) for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. I've been helping lead BPF observability since 2014, and I'm a major contributor and maintainer for the front-ends. . -

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If you scroll a table view quickly, a lot of small chunks of memory will be allocated on the fly, and this process will make the UI janky! This is mentioned briefly in the WWDC 2014 presentation “ Platforms State of the Union ”, around 01:21:56.). UI Preservation Process. UI Restoration Process. Large preview ).

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Maximiliano Firtman. Maximiliano Firtman.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 11, 2022

Flaky community support might make learning and debugging process more difficult. It can be used to create a wide range of applications like social networks, streaming sites, hosting services and much more. Material UI was introduced in 2014 with a goal to bring Android’s material UI to the web with React. Material-UI.

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Virtualization Website Speed Mobile 64

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Remotely view real-time process scheduler latency and tcp throughput with Vector and eBPF What is Vector? Vector can now show these from BCC/eBPF: Block and filesystem (ext4, xfs, zfs) latency heat maps Block IO top processes Active TCP session data such as top users, session life, retransmits . Charts are now resizable and movable.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. In 2017, we brought the Amazon Global Network to Africa, through AWS Direct Connect. Since then, we have seen an acceleration in AWS adoption.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Case-in-point, most enterprise CMS vendors lack robust full-site content delivery network (CDN) integration. A few months back, I was pulled into a scenario where a business has been working with a leading CMS vendor to roll-out a network of multi-regional websites.

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Systems Cache Website Network 63

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

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