Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Ford, et al., “TCP on Upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs,” [link] Oct 2020 - [Liu 20] Linda Liu, “Samsung QVO vs EVO vs PRO: What’s the Difference?

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map. This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. For a more recent example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. Time flies! Little to no bureaucracy.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 40

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. That chance encounter, coupled with the Netflix's fault-tolerant cloud, gave me enough confidence to suggest trying tsc in production as a workaround for the issue. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. This new region, which is located on the West Coast of the US, helps US government agencies and contractors move more of their workloads to the cloud by implementing a number of US government-specific regulatory requirements. Cloud First. Cloud Firstâ?? Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. They can be also useful when a single value of demand is desired, such as for a cloud auto scaling rule. I've never seen an explanation.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

biolatency Disk I/O latency histogram heat map 5. runqlat CPU scheduler latency heat map 10. This is currently part of our FlameCommander UI, which also runs flame graphs across the cloud. As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2015, we expanded our presence in the country, opening an AWS office in Johannesburg.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Devices and networks have evolved too: Alex Russell @slightlylate An update on mobile CPUs and the Performance Inequality Gap: Mid-tier Android devices (~$300) now get the single-core performance of a 2014 iPhone and the multi-core perf of a 2015 iPhone. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively.

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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. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. In real-life world, most products aren’t even close: an average bundle size today is around 400KB , which is up 35% compared to late 2015. On a middle-class mobile device, that accounts for 30-35 seconds for Time-To-Interactive.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Estimated Input Latency tells us if we are hitting that threshold, and ideally, it should be below 50ms. Designed for the modern web, it responds to actual congestion, rather than packet loss like TCP does, it is significantly faster , with higher throughput and lower latency — and the algorithm works differently.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen. Online event processing. Communications of the ACM 62.5

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Passive instances across regions are also possible, though it is recommended to operate in the same region as the database host in order to keep the change capture latencies low. Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing. Beresford, and Boerge Svingen. Online event processing. Communications of the ACM 62.5

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