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.

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CSS - Tricks

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Does shadow DOM improve style performance? Make ’em smaller is the main game, then constantly keep an eye on them. Nolan Lawson covers how, because of the inherent encapsulation of the shadow DOM, the styling gets applied a bit faster than it would if those styling rules were relevant to the entire page.

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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. This panel made a bigger impact than we could have ever imagined!

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. . html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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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. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. We help where we can. . html [Introducing Nitro]: [link]

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Tuning AWS Best Practices Network 52

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly. This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

However, shifting from reactive to proactive cloud operations helps organizations stay ahead of the game. At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. In the past, severe database issues seriously hurt system performance, causing delayed shipping times for prescriptions.

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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!

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s s primary key, even at tremendous scale, LSI will now give you the ability to perform fast queries against other attributes (or columns) in your table. s say that your social gaming application tracks player activity. That was before LSI.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Customers from various verticals (media, social gaming, mobile, news, advertisement) such as Netflix, Shazam and Scopely have used SQS in variety of use-cases requiring loose coupling and high performance. Similar to long polling, we expect rich client to improve the performance of SQS for our customers while decreasing their costs.

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High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Each drone is rated with a game mechanic and gets special privileges based on performance (just kidding). Eitally : there are a few critical differences between GCP and AWS or Azure. Hey, it's HighScalability time: 4 th of July may never be the same. China creates stunning non- polluting drone swarm firework displays.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Versatile, feature-rich cloud computing environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP have been a game-changer. Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. per million push notifications ($0.50 per million publishes and $0.50

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Testsigma

JUNE 23, 2021

Testsigma offers seamless integrations with a wide range of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps, AWS Lambda, CircleCI CI/CD, Bamboo CI/CD, Travis CI/CD, CodeShip CI/CD. These test steps are used together to perform a task such as filling a Signup Form or a Login Page. Read more about it here.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

But many observers with a stake in the game didn’t see it as MongoDB fending off the big players who were unfairly cashing in; they saw it as MongoDB Inc. We are really pleased with our Q1 performance and see it as continued validation of the massive market we are pursuing, our strong product market fit, and our ability to execute.”

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, as enterprises grow and their infrastructure becomes more complex, a single Kubernetes cluster on a single cloud provider may no longer suffice, potentially leading to limitations in redundancy, disaster recovery, vendor lock-in, performance optimization, geographical diversity, cost-efficient scaling, and security and compliance measures.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Figure 1: PMM Home Dashboard From the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation , an instance is considered over-provisioned when at least one specification of your instance, such as CPU, memory, or network, can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload and no specification is under-provisioned.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 7, 2021

But your infrastructure teams don’t see any issue on their AWS or Azure monitoring tools, your platform team doesn’t see anything too concerning in Kubernetes logging, and your apps team says there are green lights across the board. The blame game. So, what happens next? What’s missing is the context to tie it all together.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

As I have talked about before, one of the reasons why we built Amazon DynamoDB was that Amazon was pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and we were unable to sustain the availability, scalability, and performance needs that our growing Amazon.com business demanded. The opposite is true.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

Details on the AWS Blog. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. When we designed Amazon EFS we decided to build along the AWS principles: Elastic, scalable, highly available, consistent performance, secure, and cost-effective. Details on the AWS Blog.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In this blog post, I will explain how these three new capabilities empower you to build applications with distributed systems architecture and create responsive, reliable, and high-performance applications using DynamoDB that work at any scale. Let me expand on each one of them. DynamoDB Streams. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The disincentive to game service pricing levels in order to create short-term profits at the expense of long-term investment will be overwhelming. For example, AWS created Nitro. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Similarly, relationships are essential in many other use cases such as financial modeling, risk analysis, genome research, search, gaming, and others. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Graph databases at Amazon. Bringing it all together.

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Testsigma

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It taught us how just an easy monthly subscription can give us access to thousands of movies, games, and live events such as the Tokyo Olympics via streaming. This is very helpful in cases where you either need to verify the performance at some time or need to schedule a nightly test run. AWS Device Farm. Key Features.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

.”) So now you tweak the classifier’s parameters and try again, in search of improved performance. You might say that the outcome of this exercise is a performant predictive model. How well did it perform? People didn’t like performing the drudge work. That’s sort of true. And it made sense.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developers love the performance, simplicity, and in-memory capabilities of Redis, making it among the most popular NoSQL key-value stores. Four years ago, as part of our AWS fast data journey, we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed, in-memory data store that operates at microsecond latency. Under the hood.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. For DynamoDB, our primary focus was to build a fully-managed highly available database service with seamless scalability and predictable performance. address[0].city.

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Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

You try to break anything you try new, you are skeptical and perform some testing yourself to see if anything new works fine! Some of the first projects I tested on were video games and mobile navigation apps. Staying on top of your game and helping customers get a product that they love is a nice experience. Ajay Balamurugadas.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB is the fastest growing new service in the history of AWS. In the five months since it launched in January, DynamoDB , our fast and scalable NoSQL database service, has been setting AWS growth records. We expect the system to provide the performance we need at 1/20th of the cost of the traditional DB approach.â??.

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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. For Physalia, and for AWS more generally, the guiding principle is minimise the blast radius. NSDI’20.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When I started writing this article, however, I performed a little thought experiment: How many pieces of hardware does a signal travel through from the computer I’m writing at to get outside of the house? The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. Performance And Emissions. More after jump!

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