The Symphonia

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Hello everyone, and welcome to the last Serverless Insights of 2017! re:Invent re:View AWS re:Invent was the expected cloud-fest of mind-boggling proportions. John’s on AWS Lambda and the JVM (which needed 2 repeats) and Mike’s on Serverless and Organizational Effectiveness. This is the latest edition of our newsletter.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. AWS CloudWatch metric Amazon MQ EnqueueTime sometimes has invalid minimum values reported by CloudWatch. Removed AWS Amazon MQ Supporting Service EnqueueTime metrics with Multi aggregation. Added optional AWS Amazon MQ Supporting Service EnqueueTime metrics with Average and Maximum aggregation.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Later that year (2014), Anthony Liguori from AWS gave a [re:Invent talk] recommending users switch the clocksource to tsc to improve performance. At least AWS have now included it in their recommendations.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Search for recent blog posts on Linux containers, and try them out, and you'll piece together their capabilities and workings bit by bit. There are also many blog posts on how to compile the Linux kernel and submit your first patch, just search for "compiling the Linux kernel". It can be menu driven or automated.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 13, 2017

got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. As I also said in Learning Lambda 9 : Since the concurrency limit [of Lambda] is account-wide, one particularly important aspect to be aware of is that one Lambda function that has scaled particularly wide can impact the performance of every other Lambda function in the same AWS account + region pair.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 7, 2018

heipei : It's Friday, I've been in a jumpsuit doing manual labor all day (crazy, I know) and weighing my options between passing out on the couch over some Youtube videos, reading the Friday @highscal blog post or writing code. ivanveram : World R&D leading companies 2017 in US$. Currently favouring the path of least resistance ??.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the at re:Invent 2017. The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In our previous blog post we introduced Edgar, our troubleshooting tool for streaming sessions. By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. —?which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017. These tools and principles helped us build our SaaS solution in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The post Everything as Code appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Aftermath I provided details to AWS and Canonical, and then moved onto the other performance issues as part of the migration. Later that year (2014), Anthony Liguori from AWS gave a [re:Invent talk] recommending users switch the clocksource to tsc to improve performance. At least AWS have now included it in their recommendations.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL (Percona Server) 5.6 For the purposes of the test I turned PQ on and off (normally AWS Aurora uses its own heuristics to determine if the PQ will be helpful or not): Turn on and force: mysql> set session aurora_pq = 1; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00

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The Morning Paper

APRIL 7, 2019

You might also want to look at git-secrets which does this for AWS keys, and is extensible with additional patterns. Update: Rod Johnson has put together a great blog post describing how to tackle this challenge using Atomist. GitHub Search API collection ran from October 31st 2017 to April 20th 2018. During this time 4.4M

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

Although I'll submit a short version for USENIX LISA/SREcon.) ## bpftrace for the Win We (the BPF community) began planning this book in 2017, and posted an [announcement] about it so that anyone looking could find it. I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit.

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Tasktop

AUGUST 23, 2021

The UI is awful and the system crashes under heavy use. He co-founded Centil in 2017 with the aim of improving the government’s ROI in defense industry development. The post 3 Most Common Excuses for Ignoring User Feedback in Federal Software Development appeared first on Tasktop Blog.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

To make it easier for you, in this blog, we will discuss the latest web development trends that will evolve in 2022. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. IBM OpenWhisk, Microsoft Azure, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions are famous names that provide server-less services. Image Source.

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The Symphonia

MAY 22, 2018

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. and products like AWS Fargate have made this distinction murkier still. Finally in this first overall section it was good to be able to talk about AWS SAM and SAR?—?“Serverless

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

Although I'll submit a short version for USENIX LISA/SREcon.) ## bpftrace for the Win We (the BPF community) began planning this book in 2017, and posted an [announcement] about it so that anyone looking could find it. I'm also grateful that my fiancée, Deirdré Straughan, could find the time outside of her AWS job to do technical copy-edit.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 23, 2023

All of these models are based on a technology called Transformers , which was invented by Google Research and Google Brain in 2017. Facebook/Meta’s LLaMA, which is smaller than GPT-3 and GPT-4, is thought to have taken roughly one million GPU hours to train, which would cost roughly $2 million on AWS. O’Reilly, 2022).

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