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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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory. Huge Pages.

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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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. schedtool –B PID. Virtual Memory. Huge Pages.

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Tuning SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Performance

For years SSRS was bundled with the installation of SQL Server, which helped add to some of the confusion around licensing and support for the product, so beginning with SSRS 2017, the installation package for Reporting Services is a separate download. Tuning Options. Tuning SSRS is much like any other application.

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Microsoft Engineering loves SQLBits

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Best practices on Building a Big Data Analytics Solution – Michael Rys.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? 400 pages , jam-packed with in-depth user research and best practices. It is a very interesting idea that builds on previous best practices to find an optimal solution.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. html [60s checklist]: /Articles/Netflix_Linux_Perf_Analysis_60s.pdf [re:Invent talk]: [link] [recommendation]: [link] [Nitro]: /blog/2017-11-29/aws-ec2-virtualization-2017.html

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Bringing Rich Experiences to Memory-constrained TV Devices

The Netflix TechBlog

An example console output showing surface cache over budget errors During brainstorming with our platform team, we came across an internal bug report from 2017 that described a similar issue to what we were seeing?—?surfaces those running the 2017 SDK?—?also The SNG files have a relatively large download size at ~1.5MB each.

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