O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. 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. Coincidence?

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] , Apr 2018 [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

The book includes over 150 BPF observability tools that you can run to find performance wins and troubleshoot software, and also shows you how to write your own. At over 700 pages, it covers CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, multiple languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security analysis, and the Linux kernel. -

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Technology helps companies offer their software services to customers quickly, creating personalized experiences. IBM OpenWhisk, Microsoft Azure, AWS Lambda, and Google Cloud Functions are famous names that provide server-less services. Image Source.

Blockchain 59

Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

The book includes over 150 BPF observability tools that you can run to find performance wins and troubleshoot software, and also shows you how to write your own. At over 700 pages, it covers CPUs, memory, disks, file systems, networking, multiple languages, applications, containers, hypervisors, security analysis, and the Linux kernel. -

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

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 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103