Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I've suggested adding a command to docker to make listing at least the top-level PIDs in containers easier. ## Virtual Machines The two main technologies on Linux are Xen and KVM (and there's Bhyve for BSD). 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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We’re currently in a technological era where we have a large variety of computing endpoints at our disposal like containers, Platform as a Service (PaaS), serverless, virtual machines, APIs, etc. We went from managing five EC2 instances in 2011 to around 1,000 in 2017. with more being added continually.

Code 108

Code Infrastructure DevOps Serverless 108

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

it’s increasingly becoming a core compute element within the larger Amazon cloud. Correspondingly, 3GB functions should see a 2x CPU performance improvement over 1.5GB Lambdas, but this is through doubling the number of cores the function has access to, rather than double the virtualized time-slices. without web app servers?—?to

Serverless 40

Serverless Lambda AWS Traffic 40

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?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

The company also releases MongoDB Atlas, promoting it as the most cost-effective way to run MongoDB in the Cloud. Some might say this marked the beginning of MongoDB’s “cloud push” escalation.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process.

Hardware 99

Hardware Artificial Intelligence Architecture Google 99

O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Google not only crawled and indexed virtually every page on the web, it looked at how sites linked to each other, tracked which of the ten top links it showed were clicked on the most, which ones led people to come back and try another and which sent them away satisfied. But over time, something went very wrong.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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. Still cloud-y, but with a possibility of migration. Coincidence? Probably not, but only time will tell.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there's some mystery around them. They can be also useful when a single value of demand is desired, such as for a cloud auto scaling rule. Network I/O? termc$ uptime.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Time Sync Service which provides a highly accurate and reliable global time reference. Amazon Time Sync Service is available at no extra cost for customers using EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

AWS 55

AWS Google Database Virtualization 55