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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. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance.

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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. A container is a small, self-contained, fully functional software package that can run an application or service, isolated from other applications running on the same host.

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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. Monolithic architectures were commonplace with legacy, on-premises software solutions. FaaS vs. monolithic architectures.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). These partial stacks get grouped together on the left. Click here for a longer explanation. This can be done using eBPF as well.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. DevOps and continuous delivery: A revolution in processes, and the way people and software delivery teams work. What is Kubernetes?

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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. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance.

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Path to NoOps part 2: How infrastructure as code makes cloud automation attainable—and repeatable—at scale

Dynatrace

With a skeleton staff of 7 on a on 24×7 schedule, we increased the number releases from 2 to 26 per year and reduced production bugs by 93% since 2014. The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation. Register now!