Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure. AWS , Azure , DigitalOcean. Are you a startup that has free AWS or Azure hosting credits you’d like to use for your database hosting? Do you want to deploy in an AWS VPC or Azure VNET?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

to a larger AWS instance size, from m5.4xl (16 vCPUs) to m5.12xl (48 vCPUs). As GS2 relies on AWS EC2 Auto Scaling to target-track CPU utilization, we thought we just had to redeploy the service on the larger instance type and wait for the ASG (Auto Scaling Group) to settle on the CPU target. let’s call it GS2?—?to

Hardware 363

Hardware Cache Performance Latency 363

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.

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Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

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

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

Engineering 137

Engineering Serverless Lambda AWS 137

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

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

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. The report also reveals the leading programming languages practitioners use for application workloads.

Open Source 342

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 342

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Cloud services platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP are reshaping how organizations deliver value to their customers, making cloud migration an increasingly attractive option for running applications. They need enough hardware to serve their anticipated volume and keep things running smoothly without buying too much or too little.

Cloud 165

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 165

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure. 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

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

At Dynatrace Perform 2022 , David Catanoso, acting director of cloud and edge solutions at the U.S. ” Since then, VA solved many cloud performance problems and kept its complex hybrid environment running without interrupting remote work. “We used Dynatrace to monitor that large increase in servers.

Cloud 176

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 176

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

If your app runs in a public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the provider secures the infrastructure, while you’re responsible for security measures within applications and configurations. What are some key characteristics of securing cloud applications?

Cloud 176

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 176

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Dynatrace Synthetic allows you check the availability and performance for your business-critical applications. The view also gives automated recommendations on how to optimize page load times: Dynatrace provides very detailed root cause information and gives recommendations on how to fix / optimize performance.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Watch webinar now!

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a wide range of serverless solutions. To get a better understanding of AWS serverless, we’ll first explore the basics of serverless architectures, review AWS serverless offerings, and explore common use cases. AWS serverless offerings. Simplicity. The first benefit is simplicity.

Serverless 280

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 280

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

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

VoltDB

JUNE 29, 2017

However, increasing hardware capacity doesn’t really solve the problem, and it introduces new ones. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill. And while it’s easy to say “spin up more AWS servers”, you’re only adding to your cloud provider bill.

Performance 40

Performance Hardware Latency Infrastructure 40

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

The group has deep roots in High Performance Computing (that’s what Shahin, Steve, and I did at Sun). So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities. My own consulting work is initially in two areas.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 22, 2013

s message of price , performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. these are core principles for every AWS service. A lot of the power of AWS comes from the fact that we can invest in expertise in these sorts of areas and spread the benefits across all our customers. s clear that Amazon Redshiftâ??s

Design 112

Design AWS Hardware Media 112

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

The best practices that we are collecting in the AWS Economics Center are there to help our customers get a total view on their IT cost such that they can accurately compare on-premise and cloud. The AWS Economics Center now features the TCO of Web Applications whitepaper. Total Cost of Ownership.

AWS 118

AWS Hardware Traffic Best Practices 118

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Cloud 116

Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

those resources now belong to cloud providers, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others. For workloads that require high performance, organizations would be better suited by purchasing their own servers. Response Times. When code isn’t in use, the cloud providers typically throttle it all the way down.

Serverless 57

Serverless Monitoring Lambda Latency 57

cdemi

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Let's talk about the elephant in the room; Serverless doesn't really mean that there are no Software or Hardware servers. Whether you choose Azure Functions or AWS Lambda, you cannot easily switch to another. Azure Functions don't have this restriction, but on AWS Lambda, functions are not allowed to run for longer than 5 minutes.

Serverless 64

Serverless Architecture Lambda Azure 64

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) Performance. One minute an SRE might be provisioning storage in AWS, the next minute an SRE might have to talk to customers or go write some Python code for a new project. Availability. Monitoring.

Engineering 67

Engineering DevOps Monitoring Google 67

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner, Dynatrace easily integrates with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. We’re therefore excited to announce that Dynatrace has received the AWS Outposts Service Ready designation. What is AWS Outposts?

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AWS Design Storage Cloud 200

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.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

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.

Cloud 119

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 119

All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Empowering innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Troy: We moved our service from internal servers to AWS.

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Innovation AWS Education Network 149

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. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Although we currently use the simple policy of always prioritizing intermediate data, it may not be the optimal policy with respect to end-to-end performance objectives.

Storage 112

Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

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. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

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. Rendering on AWS provides the flexibility to control how quickly a project is completed. By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.),

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

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. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This allows teams to sidestep much of the cost and time associated with managing hardware, platforms, and operating systems on-premises, while also gaining the flexibility to scale rapidly and efficiently. AWS Lambda functions are an example of how a serverless framework works: Developers write a function in a supported language or platform.

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 243