Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Fortunately, it was videoed for those who missed it. Virtual Memory. What I was most excited for was the launch of a new EC2 hypervisor, which I referred to in the video as the "c5 hypervisor".

Tuning 52

Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. Build security in from the ground up.

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AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Live online training, videos, books, certification prep, and more, from O’Reilly and our partner publishers. AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Relationships are a fundamental aspect of both the physical and virtual worlds. Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Graph databases at Amazon.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video).

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

It was – like the hypothetical movie I describe above – more than a little bit odd, as you could leave a session discussing ever more abstract layers of virtualization and walk into one where they emphasized the critical importance of pinning a network interface to a specific VM for optimal performance. Watch the Video. Very Well!”

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Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the first projects I tested on were video games and mobile navigation apps. 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! How did you land in testing, Erin? I began testing as a hobby many years ago.

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Software Software Testing Energy 97

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. A setting of 100 determines it to swap aggressively to disk.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Several respondents also mentioned working with video: analyzing video data streams, video analytics, and generating or editing videos. But they may back off on AI development.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

. ## Observability Here's the big picture of performance observability tools on Linux, from my [Linux performance] page, where I also have diagrams for other tool types, as well as videos and slides of prior Linux performance talks: I also have a USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist , as a different way to navigate and apply the tools.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

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. Companies like C-SPAN show how: scores of people would have to scan video material for hours in order to create keywords, for example, according to a person's name.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 76