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.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). At AWS, we want to be the Q for developers, giving them the super-powered tools and services with deep features in the Cloud. We launched the following new services and features today to help.

AWS 162

AWS Development Lambda Open Source 162

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 221

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 221

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2019

During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works.

AWS 80

AWS Storage Innovation Network 80

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

DevOps platform engineers are responsible for cloud platform availability and performance, as well as the efficiency of virtual bandwidth, routers, switches, virtual private networks, firewalls, and network management. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Automated DevOps throughout AWS hybrid-cloud environments. Kubernetes.

DevOps 200

DevOps Engineering Testing Open Source 200

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

AWS 147

AWS Strategy Storage Metrics 147

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation.

Engineering 190

Engineering Development Infrastructure Cloud 190

All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers. Comments ().

AWS 87

AWS Strategy Scalability Cloud 87

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dynatrace

MARCH 8, 2022

Inaugural Women in Tech panel at Dynatrace Perform 2022. This February at Dynatrace’s flagship conference, Perform , the Dynaspace for Women hosted our first-ever Women in Tech panel. Rebeca Bolanos’ daughters watch the Women in Tech panel at Perform 2022. Growing membership and growing influence.

Education 187

Education Games Tuning Software Engineering 187

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG metrics are increasingly important to investors as they evaluate risk; in turn, these metrics are increasingly important to organizations because they measure and disclose their performance. For example, you could view underutilized instances in a specific AWS data center or top CO2e emitters within a specific host group.

Energy 191

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 191

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Today’s organizations face increasing pressure to keep their cloud-based applications performing and secure. At this year’s RSA conference, security pros will explore themes such as the role of automation in cyberthreat detection and the importance of DevSecOps in proactive cybersecurity. Learn more with the 2022 InfoSec guide.

Cloud 195

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 195

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

On the Netflix Java/Linux/EC2 stack there were no working mixed-mode flame graphs, no production safe dynamic tracer, and no PMCs: All tools I used extensively for advanced performance analysis. Apart from developing tools, much of my time has been spent helping teams with performance issues and evaluations. How would I do my job?

Java 145

Java Cloud Cache AWS 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. In a predictable discovery, we found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) claimed the majority at 55% of use for all PostgreSQL hosting activities in a public cloud environment.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. I moved to the US in 2006 as there were many more opportunities there, especially in kernel engineering and performance. Yes, I'm performance analyzing myself. link]. -->

Google 144

Google Engineering Open Source AWS 144

The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS Lambda Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. Amazon Aurora has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS and frequently is the target of migration from on-premise proprietary databases.

Database 117

Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. .

Google 132

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 132

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Two years later, I came across that same customer at the AWS re:Invent conference , who then told me they were in the midst of a big project, moving their eCommerce to AWS , targeting running a big chunk of it in Kubernetes next year. .

Google 130

Google Ecommerce DevOps Cloud 130

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

You can read my blog supporting my session titled “ Performance as Code: Lets make it a Standard ” on the Neotys PAC blog. Bamboo, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline …. modules to gather and evaluation a provided time frame and performance specification. Introducing Pitometer: Metrics-based Deployment Validation in your CI/CD.

Architecture 126

Architecture Open Source Azure Metrics 126

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2019

During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works.

AWS 17

AWS Storage Innovation Network 17

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

On the Netflix Java/Linux/EC2 stack there were no working mixed-mode flame graphs, no production safe dynamic tracer, and no PMCs: All tools I used extensively for advanced performance analysis. Apart from developing tools, much of my time has been spent helping teams with performance issues and evaluations. How would I do my job?

Java 52

Java Cache Cloud AWS 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Nov 17 - Scale and performance in a distributed file system , John H. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments (). Nichols, M.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. The emergence of chiplet technology also allows higher performance and integration without having to design every chip from scratch.

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. Each of the category winners will also receive $5K worth of AWS credits. The winner will be announced on October 16 and the trophies will be presented at the AWS Re: Invent conference in November in Las Vegas.

Cloud 109

Cloud AWS Open Source Infrastructure 109

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2012

I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. I will also be visiting Chile and Mexico on this trip and have the great fortune to meet many of our Latin American AWS customers. Staged Event-Driven Architecture.

Architecture 95

Architecture AWS Internet Internet 95

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff! I wholeheartedly agree. makers of Fission ?—?the

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We had our first Studio applications consuming the federated graph, without any performance degradation, by the end of the 2019. Check out their conference talk and expect a future blog post from our colleagues. We aim to perform any additional resource-intensive operations off-box with the exception of logging and metrics.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Performance test results To show how the system performs with and without the caching mechanism, we ran two tests: A test with a low/moderate load showing a median latency increase due to overhead from the cache synchronization mechanism, but better 99th percentile latencies. In USENIX annual technical conference (Vol.

Cache 224

Cache Latency Traffic Systems 224

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you time time?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40