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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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Take the SQL Server Mac challenge

SQL Server According to Bob

When I joined Microsoft in 1993, I would embark on a 25 year journey working only on Windows laptops and Windows Server computers. Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers. So here in this blog post, I will show you my journey in taking the SQL Server Mac Challenge.

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Tuning SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Performance

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. These topics apply to both SQL Server Reporting Services as well as Power BI Report Server. Installation and support of SSRS can be confusing.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Oracle VM Server is based on Xen. I came up with a great demo where I could break Solaris 9 and 10 servers in the same way, then demonstrate how it would take an hour and a reboot cycle to fix Solaris 9, but minutes and no reboot to fix Solaris 10. amazon"). I also wrote and published an entertaining SMF manifest that played music.

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Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

API Gateway can now be used to provide an internet-accessible public front to web services enclosed within a VPC. without web app servers?—?to Serverless at re:Invent 2017 was originally published in The Symphonium on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.