The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! First, we’ve grown the number of different IPC clients.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. Virtual Memory. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. Huge Pages.

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. Virtual Memory. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. Alex Maestretti (security) co-presented SecOps 2021 Today: Using AWS Services to Deliver SecOps. Huge Pages.

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 [Linux tunables] post.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Since instances of both CentOS and Ubuntu were running in parallel, I could collect flame graphs at the same time (same time-of-day traffic mix) and compare them side by side. I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52