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. primarily virtual?—?and

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

While it’s sadly premature to say that the survey took place at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (though we can all hope), it took place at a time when restrictions were loosening: we were starting to go out in public, have parties, and in some cases even attend in-person conferences. Salaries were lower regardless of education or job title.

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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. July 20 Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. In case you are interested, at the same conference I also gave a talk on [BPF Internals].

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O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. But that’s also a problem that 5G vendors could solve; virtual LANs ( VLANs ) are hardly a new concept. Upcoming events.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. They want to compete with AWS or Azure, and want to use OpenStack as a foundation for a commercial offering.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. lightweight virtualization for Serverless Computing”.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Have you ever had to provision 2,500 virtual host instances and 120 Kubernetes clusters in two days? Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. AWS Infrastructure Event Management program. Monitoring.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. They want to compete with AWS or Azure, and want to use OpenStack as a foundation for a commercial offering.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.

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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. .

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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. .

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. The most popular CM tools are DevOps focused, and, like DevOps itself, they’re declining: usage in the CM topic dropped significantly (-18%) in 2019, as did virtually all CM tools. Interestingly, R itself continues to decline.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

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Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

Connecting with people through social channels, Slack groups, forums, meetups, conferences, content and much more. And if I could just talk about these users and some of the barriers they face, or what it’s like to go through a digital experience as they do, we’ll learn an awful lot! But for me, it’s about connections. The idea guy!

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I've suggested adding a command to docker to make listing at least the top-level PIDs in containers easier. ## Virtual Machines The two main technologies on Linux are Xen and KVM (and there's Bhyve for BSD). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory?

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

has given me much fulfilment and a long list of truly awful bugs to recount. ” Distracted in a conference grand ballroom, above what might be the largest mall in the world or at least Bangkok, a blank QEMU session has me seriously questioning my life choices. Linus: I basically never do virtual machines. Recent work.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

In the first step we might reach this goal by combining the fastest mobility services through a digital platform; in the next, it might be a task fulfilled by Virtual Reality. At the US space agency NASA, for example, Amazon Alexa organizes the ordering of conference rooms. A voice command creates a lot more productivity.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the skip to the end if you want my take on those.

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