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?

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

Soon after the launch of Amazon Relation Dabase Service (RDS) AWS customers were giving us feedback that they would love to migrate to RDS but what they would love even more was if we could also unshackle them from the high-cost, punitive licensing schemes that came with the proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally.

AWS 167

AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region, our 20th Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers.

AWS 124

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Up until 2017, the ML+AI topic had been amongst the fastest growing topics on the platform. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Xen's biggest user is the Amazon EC2 cloud, which has over one million customers, and appears to be a custom version (it self identifies as version "3.4.3.amazon"). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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 Cloud9 is, at its most simple, a cloud hosted IDE.

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Everything as Code can be described as a methodology or practice which consists of extending the idea of how applications are treated as code and applying these concepts to all other IT components like operating systems, network configurations, and pipelines. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017.

Code 108

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 108

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. This service is immediately available in all AWS regions. With the launch of Amazon Time Sync Service, AWS regions are equipped with similar GPS and atomic clocks.

AWS 55

AWS Google Database Virtualization 55

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Serverless architecture is the fastest-growing cloud computing paradigm nowadays. This architecture runs on cloud technology, and developers can focus on the code instead of the scaling, maintenance, and infrastructure facilities. AI-powered Chatbots.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled network (e.g. To make the performance impact more visible, you could even introduce 2G Tuesdays or set up a throttled 3G network in your office for faster testing. 150ms RTT, 1.5 Mbps down, 0.7 Mbps up) with a throttled CPU (5× slowdown).

Performance 104

Performance Cache Metrics Network 104