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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. 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. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

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. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. 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. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

In 2017, I attended the Women in Big Data conference at Netflix and met with several amazing women in data engineering, including our VP. Thanks to the migration to V2, we were able to improve data availability and usability for our consumers significantly. You can learn more about it from my talk at the Flink forward conference.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.216

Dynatrace

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. Self-service update packages management is now available. You can safe your disk space and have more control over what’s available to your cluster . Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. x86 (64bit-only).