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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance.

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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. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). There have been security vulnerabilities, just like there are with any software. People rarely create them manually.

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Top Reasons to Choose Kotlin for Android App Development in 2023

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The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. It runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Furthermore, because Kotlin is a JVM software, it can use a library of Java libraries, making it safer for Android app development.

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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. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,