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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. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory. Huge Pages. File System.

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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. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory. Huge Pages. File System.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

All Things Distributed

The Ohio Region is the fifth AWS region in the US. It brings the worldwide total of AWS Availability Zones (AZs) to 38, and the number of regions globally to 14. The pace of expansion at AWS is accelerating, and Ohio is our third region launch this year. We are also glad to offer low transfer rates between both US East Regions.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

PMC analysis (2017). Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). 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].

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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. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. Consumption and storage now returned correctly when using Environment API with paging. Removed AWS Amazon MQ Supporting Service EnqueueTime metrics with Multi aggregation.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank!