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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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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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. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. The process started with manual pull of member account information that was part of the session.

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Serverless at re:Invent 2017

The Symphonia

Traffic shaping / canary deployment was pre-announced at Serverless Conf NYC in October, and this is now available. Like Lambda, API Gateway now supports canary deployment / traffic shaping. A much bigger update is the new integration with CodeDeploy to support Traffic Shaping and Canary Releases. without web app servers?—?to

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Understanding the Importance of 5 Nines Availability

IO River

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. The stakes are even higher during high-traffic periods such as Black Friday or Cyber Monday. High availability is a business imperative in this sector.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

We believe the central constraint in high throughput data processing has moved from compute and storage to the network. We describe how doing so not only reduces network traffic, but also allows for fast crash recovery, failovers to replicas without loss of data, and fault-tolerant, self-healing storage.

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