Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

More organizations than ever are undertaking cloud migration as digital transformation continues to gain momentum across every industry in every region. But what does it take to migrate your existing applications to the cloud? What is cloud migration? However, it can also mean migrating from one cloud to another.

Cloud 158

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 158

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

As organizations expand their cloud footprints, they are combining public, private, and on-premises infrastructures. But modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and dynamic — and over time, this cloud complexity can impede innovation. VA’s journey into the cloud.

Cloud 168

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 168

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Usage reduction: What to look for to reduce PostgreSQL cloud costs The first step in cost reduction is to use what you need and not more. Don’t pay for capacity you don’t use or need.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 333

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 333

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

I'm thrilled to be joining Intel to work on the performance of everything, apps to metal, with a focus on cloud computing. My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware.

Wireless 145

Wireless Hardware Open Source AWS 145

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

Dynatrace is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, so it’s easy to integrate Dynatrace with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. In addition to automatic full-stack monitoring, Dynatrace provides comprehensive support for a wide range of AWS services. Dynatrace news.

Design 139

Design AWS Education Innovation 139

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. What Exactly is Greenplum? over Greenplum 5.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability has long been the goal of site reliability engineers (SREs) to provide system availability that is “always on.” But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain.

Infrastructure 173

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 173

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. The need for systems to be resilient is still increasing, and chaos engineering tools and techniques are developing as a key way to validate that resilience is working as designed.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. Pensive relies on a regular expression based rules engine that has been curated over time. What’s Next? But our job is nowhere near done.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later.

Serverless 228

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 228

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. S3 on AWS). As the saying goes, ‘all snowflakes are special’ – but what is it exactly that’s special about this one?

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Dynatrace news. Step #4: Extend monitoring beyond Dynatrace OneAgent.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later.

Serverless 139

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 139

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

I'm thrilled to be joining Intel to work on the performance of everything, apps to metal, with a focus on cloud computing. My dream is to turn computer performance analysis into a science, one where we can completely understand the performance of everything: of applications, libraries, kernels, hypervisors, firmware, and hardware.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Cloud certifications were by far the most popular.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2. Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Unlocking the benefits of the cloud for the HPC community. By Werner Vogels on 12 July 2010 05:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] Mar 2020 - [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 - [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs. Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al.,

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Cloud Infrastructure Analysis : Public Cloud vs. On-Premise vs. Hybrid Cloud. This comes as no surprise, as MySQL has held this position consistently for many years according to DB-Engines.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud. Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Jack and his engineers have created a safe social app for teachers and students. hands freeÃ? and took near zero development effort.

Innovation 146

Innovation AWS Education Network 146

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Regardless of whether the computing platform to be evaluated is on-prem, containerized, virtualized, or in the cloud, it is crucial to consider several essential factors. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses,” [link] , Mar 2020 [Gregg 20] Brendan Gregg, “Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, Second Edition,” Addison-Wesley, 2020 [Hruska 20] Joel Hruska, “Intel Demos PCIe 5.0 Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Dotcom-Monitor’s LoadView and Dynatrace are performance-engineering platforms by heart. Both have an excellent customer base, are fully Cloud native solutions and root on a long-standing history. This showcase demonstrates how the combination of both tools will close remaining gaps in the performance engineering chain.

AWS 40

AWS Tuning Monitoring Servers 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This includes many great engineers who I'm sure will excel in whatever they choose to work on next. Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40