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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.** Storage I/O. 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

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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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.** Storage I/O. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability. We help where we can.

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Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.216

Dynatrace

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. To improve management of node capabilities , we added Enable/disable Web UI traffic operation for cluster node in Cluster Mission Control UI. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. Operating systems support.

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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. Aurora brings a novel architecture to the relational database to address this constraint, most notably by pushing redo processing to a multi-tenant scaleout storage service, purpose-built for Aurora.

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SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals

SQL Server According to Bob

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

The UK tracker plots the growth in AWS jobs clearly: The job growth is in distributed systems, cloud SRE, data science, cloud network engineering, traffic and chaos engineering, container scheduling, and other new roles. Appliance manufacturers hire kernel engineers to develop custom features, including storage appliances.