Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. Consider using virtual machines or specialized frameworks for these types of tasks.

Azure 138

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 138

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

More incredible Speed with Virtual DOM. Reactjs can help your business in web and mobile application development by bringing fast speed using the virtual DOM. Virtual DOM of React refreshes only parts of the page, so it is faster than the conventional full refresh model. Virtual DOM is an additional feature offered by React.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2010, however, nearly none of it existed: the CNCF wasn’t formed until 2015! The abstractions that Eureka provides for this are Virtual IPs (VIPs) for insecure communication, and Secure VIPs (SVIPs) for secure. Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments.

Traffic 220

Traffic Latency Cloud C++ 220

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2015-2020: Overhead As part of production rollout I did many performance overhead tests, which I've described publicly before: The overhead of adding frame pointers to everything (libc and Java) was usually less than 1%, with one exception of 10%. Back-end servers. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). This was much worse many years ago on Xen virtual machine guests.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I also shared setting the clocksource in my talks and in my 2015 Linux tunables post.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Thankfully, I found some older linux-devel mailing list archives, rescued from server backups, often stored as tarballs of digests. It's time in some cgroup paths, but this server is not doing much disk I/O. My search was starting to feel cursed. But it was somehow missing from all of them. to the load average. termc$ uptime.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. It used to provide an insight into how quickly the server outputs any data. This knowledge will give you the best optimization target for ongoing efforts. What does it mean?

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145