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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. 0% performance overhead.

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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.** Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. 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. WARNING: These tunables were developed in late 2017, for Ubuntu Xenial instances on EC2.** Andrew Park and Sebastien de Larquier Tooling Up for Efficiency: DIY Solutions @ Netflix. Huge Pages.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. Enter paravirtualization, originally introduced in Xen, where the guest has been modified to be aware of the hypervisor and to make efficient hypercalls. 0% performance overhead.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

We first brought our DevOps story to life at Perform 2017 when our CTO & Founder Bernd Greifeneder, DevOps Lead Anita Engleder and I went on stage. DevOps Transformation at Dynatrace enacted live on stage at Perform 2017! The post Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

Over the years, I followed the big data open-source community and Netflix tech blogs closely, and learned a lot about Netflix’s innovative engineering solutions and active contributions to the open-source ecosystem. The efficiency achieved in processing and storage layers brought us big savings on computing and storage costs.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Search for recent blog posts on Linux containers, and try them out, and you'll piece together their capabilities and workings bit by bit. It's the official profiler.