All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System , the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

Virtualization 213

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 213

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 167

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 167

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Serverless computing is a cloud-based, on-demand execution model where customers consume resources solely based on their application usage.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 244

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 123

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 123

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. million in 2020. Serverless container services.

Serverless 219

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

Modern, cloud-native computing is impossible to separate from containers and Kubernetes adoption. The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing.

Open Source 345

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 345

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 253

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 253

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., In this paper we explore the implications microservices have across the cloud system stack. Hardware implications. ASPLOS’19. Bottleneck locations also vary with load.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System (Nitro System), the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. Now, with the Nitro System, we can offer the best price performance in the cloud, the most secure environment, and a faster pace of innovation.

Virtualization 87

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 87

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Log monitoring, log analysis, and log analytics are more important than ever as organizations adopt more cloud-native technologies, containers, and microservices-based architectures. Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes.

Analytics 211

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 211

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 ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But with the complexity that comes with digital transformation and cloud-native architecture, teams need a way to make sure applications can withstand the “chaos” of production. Chaos engineering answers this need so organizations can deliver robust, resilient cloud-native applications that can stand up under any conditions.

Engineering 228

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. Observability relies on telemetry derived from instrumentation that comes from the endpoints and services in your multi-cloud computing environments.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But as more organizations adopt cloud-native technologies and distribute workloads among multicloud environments, that goal seems harder to attain. In fact, a recent survey found that many cloud applications are vulnerable to outages , despite growing confidence in cloud platforms and services.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 185

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

Serverless 238

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 238

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

There were five trends and topics for 2021, Serverless First, Chaos Engineering, Wardley Mapping, Huge Hardware, Sustainability. My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2021

DevOps and cloud-based computing have existed in our life for some time now. Today, we are here to talk about the successful amalgamation of DevOps and cloud-based technologies that is amazing in itself. Why Opt For Cloud-Based Solutions and DevOps? Cloud-based solutions are extremely fast when combined with DevOps.

DevOps 59

DevOps Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 59

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

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

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

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? AWS Identity and Access Management brings together on-premises and cloud identity management. Comments ().

Storage 115

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 115

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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

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. Many respondents acquired certifications.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

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

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. Following the innovation of microservices, serverless computing is the next step in the evolution of how applications are built in the cloud. Dynatrace news. Azure Functions in a nutshell.

Serverless 142

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 142

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. This has led to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes to detect issues in hardware or bugs in recently rolled out data platform software.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

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 first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. The software that powers todayâ??s Using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio , you can now deploy your.NET applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk directly from your Visual Studio environment without changing any code. By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Comments ().

Cloud 115

Cloud Development AWS Servers 115

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

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

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Without cloud-based rendering, this ambitious project would not have met its targeted delivery date!

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

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. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. We ended up setting it in the BaseAMI for all cloud services.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 5, 2017

Not too long ago I wrote about an open source object storage software called Minio and how I was using it on my Raspberry Pi for backups. The great thing about Minio is it shares the same APIs as AWS S3, but can be deployed to your own hardware, eliminating Amazon as a dependency.

Storage 40

Storage Cloud Hardware Open Source 40

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