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

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). More startups, small and medium businesses, large enterprises, universities, and government organizations all over the world are moving to the AWS Cloud faster than ever before.

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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"). The way the cloud is used helps with security: most instances at my employer have only been up for one or two days. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

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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?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis.

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High Scalability

MAY 3, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. 326 billion : USA farm expenses in 2017. 326 billion : USA farm expenses in 2017. Paul Kunert : In dollar terms, Jeff Bezos's cloud services wing grew 41 per cent year on year to $7.6bn, figures from Canalys show. Makes one think.

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High Scalability

MAY 10, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. 1% : performers raked in 60% of all concert-ticket revenue world-wide in 2017—more than double their share in 1982. 1% : performers raked in 60% of all concert-ticket revenue world-wide in 2017—more than double their share in 1982.

Internet 31

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3%

Internet 28

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Testsigma

JANUARY 29, 2021

That’s not all, the global mobile traffic is expected to increase sevenfold between 2017 and 2022. The rise of mobile internet usage is evident across developed economies as well as developing ones (India, Bangladesh, etc.)[3]. that require internet connectivity. that require internet connectivity.

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Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Twitter Lite PWA : It was integrated as the standard User Interface in 2017. Internet of Things (IoT).

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. But I also love solving issues quickly, and sometimes that means just asking colleagues or searching the Internet. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services. I'm including this step as a reminder for anyone following this kind of analysis.

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Rigor

MARCH 20, 2018

Paul Calvano has an awesome post using HTTP archive data to detail the prevalence of third party content on the internet. 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content. The Rise of Cloud Computing. Cloud services also enable the business to focus on its core competencies.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

Data portability Open source freedom enables an organization to deploy databases anywhere and move them at any time — to cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments. It’s important to note that moving applications to the public cloud doesn’t necessarily eliminate data lock-in.

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Next, I’ll be heading to Bristol to catch the end of the ACCU 2017 conference, and give the closing talk on “Something(s) New in C++.” Here is the current abstract: By the time the ACCU 2017 conference begins, C++17 is expected to be technically complete and in its final approval ballot. What comes next?

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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. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. million requests per second.

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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 28, 2017

they launched in October 2017, and were founded by people with experience at Nest (thermostats) and August (locks). Disclaimer: I don’t have any connection to Noon, don’t know anyone who works there, or know what cloud if any their back end runs on. Eventually I discovered a new option called Noon ( noonhome.com )?—?they

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

at re:Invent 2017. Lambda functions can make HTTP calls to external services anywhere on the public internet without any extra granted permissions. AWS announced a new service?—?the the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at It was launched to the public in February and I’ve been digging into it since.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

An interesting way of avoiding parsing costs is to use binary templates that Ember has introduced in 2017. Alex Danilo has explained WebAssembly and how it works at his Google I/O 2017 talk. Decent , with Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Samsung Internet being on board. Bundle Buddy. Bundlephobia. Webpack size-plugin. Browser support?

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