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Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications

The Morning Paper

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. Some one-liners: # New processes with arguments bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_execve { join(args->argv); }'. Files opened by process bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:syscalls:sys_enter_open { printf("%s %sn", comm, str(args->filename)); }'.

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

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)

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Cloud Automation workshop roadshow: Kick-off

Dynatrace

Back in 2018, we taught those DevOps concepts and implemented unbreakable pipelines for cloud-native delivery projects. Last week we kicked it off with a three-hour virtual hands-on workshop. The initial plan was to do it onsite in Ohio, but – I guess I don’t have to tell you why – we decided to start virtual first.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

By 2024, over 50% of all IT spending will be directly put towards digital transformation and innovation (up from 31% in 2018). In this visual, you can see the whole processing of Keptn deploying, testing, and evaluating performance tests against defined SLIs is automated. Industry apps explosion. Get started today! .

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OneAgent & ActiveGate release notes, version 1.173

Dynatrace

Improved Oracle process recognition. Previously, all Oracle processes were represented by one Oracle process group and one Oracle process group instance on each host. Starting with OneAgent version 1.173, each Oracle process group will represent a single Oracle SID (unique identifier for every Oracle DB instance).

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. The virtual CPU is turned off. Some provide in-process agents, but the way they’re deployed is rather complicated.

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