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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.** Networking. We help where we can. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows.

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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.** Networking. We help where we can. My talk included a section on Linux kernel tunables, as follows.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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

Brendan Gregg

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. [link] 2021 - [Trader 21] Tiffany Trader, “Cerebras Second-Gen 7nm Wafer Scale Engine Doubles AI Performance Over First-Gen Chip ,” [link] Apr 2021 - [Ghigoff 21] Yoann Ghigoff, et al., "BMC:

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Kubernetes And Kernel Panics

The Netflix TechBlog

But, with that prework, when the time comes, the kernel can easily construct the packet and get it out the (preconfigured) network interface as things come crashing down. 10/16/2017 [ 8374.555629] Call Trace: [ 8374.556147] <TASK> [ 8374.556601] dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x5b [ 8374.557361] panic+0x103/0x2db [ 8374.558166] ?

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What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

If your application runs on servers you manage, either on-premises or on a private cloud, you’re responsible for securing the application as well as the operating system, network infrastructure, and physical hardware. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications? These alerts tend to slow down development.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

In late 2017, we received some critical feedback from the brothers on the Stranger Things 2 audio mix: in some scenes, there was a reduced sense of where sounds are located in the 5.1-channel This approach selects the audio bitrate based on network conditions at the start of playback. Media is provided in several qualities.