Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 190

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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In fact, according to a Gartner forecast , revenue for global container management software and services will reach $944 million in 2024 — up from $465.8 With the significant growth of container management software and services, enterprises need to find ways to simplify the process. million in 2020. Serverless container services.

Serverless 223

Serverless Azure Hardware Transportation 223

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A great example of this approach to innovation and problem solving is the creation of the AWS Nitro System (Nitro System), the underlying platform for our EC2 instances. When you’re a customer-centric company, you often find yourself in the great unknown because customers will always want more and better.

Virtualization 88

Virtualization AWS Systems Innovation 88

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You may be using serverless functions like AWS Lambda , Azure Functions , or Google Cloud Functions, or a container management service, such as Kubernetes. Many customers try to use traditional tools to monitor and observe modern software stacks, but they struggle to deal with the dynamic and changing nature of cloud environments.

Cloud 233

Cloud Serverless Hardware Operating System 233

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., The paper examines the implications of microservices at the hardware, OS and networking stack, cluster management, and application framework levels, as well as the impact of tail latency.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in the Nordics! The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden.

AWS 117

AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management. Cloud providers such as Google, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft also followed suit with frameworks such as Google Cloud Functions , AWS Lambda , and Microsoft Azure Functions. How does function as a service work?

Development 258

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 258

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? Amazon Aurora is a proprietary, cloud-native, fully managed relational database service developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Limit the cloud services a cloud provider can offer and you limit the quality of the software we can build. Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Building software is not moving freight. It would make the job of building quality software even harder and slower and more expensive.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

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. Open-source software drives a vibrant Kubernetes ecosystem. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 348

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 348

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They need specialized hardware, access to petabytes of images, and digital content creation applications with controlled licenses. How did we get here?

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

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. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 145

Wireless Hardware Open Source AWS 145

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.

Serverless 98

Serverless Hardware AWS Architecture 98

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

Cloud 184

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring 184

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Last week, I wrote a blog about helping the machine learning scientist community select the right deep learning framework from among many we support on AWS such as MxNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console.

AWS 166

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 166

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Driving this growth is the increasing adoption of hyperscale cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) and containerized microservices running on Kubernetes. Logs can include data about user inputs, system processes, and hardware states. In fact, the global log management market is expected to grow from 1.9 billion in 2020 to $4.1

Analytics 217

Analytics Monitoring Artificial Intelligence DevOps 217

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 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. Each dimension has progressed through these stages: 1.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 240

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 240

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 23, 2012

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customersâ?? The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AWS, making it elastic, scalable and highly reliable.

Storage 116

Storage AWS Virtualization Cloud 116

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. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 147

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 147

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior. Chaos engineers ask why. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 233

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 233

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The first version of AWS Lambda was built using Linux containers. All of the existing approaches we just examined involve trade-offs that AWS didn’t want to make.

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

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. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

At AWS, we continue to strive to enable builders to build cutting-edge technologies faster in a secure, reliable, and scalable fashion. Now, thousands of customers are trying Amazon SageMaker and building ML models on top of their data lakes in AWS. In machine learning, more is usually more. Acceleration and distribution.

Scalability 160

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 160

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) , can offer infrastructure with five-nines availability by deploying in multiple availability zones and replicating data between regions. Traditionally, teams achieve this high level of uptime using a combination of high-capacity hardware, system redundancy, and failover models.

Infrastructure 190

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 190

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

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. Streaming Pensive Streaming Pensive Architecture Apache Flink powers real-time stream processing jobs in the Netflix data platform.

Big Data 238

Big Data Infrastructure Metrics Hardware 238

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.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2020

The investment continues—we’re anticipating an upcoming release of the AWS Graviton2 processor , which has already been announced to be significantly more powerful than its predecessor. Other distributions like Debian and Fedora are available as well, in addition to other software like VMware, NGINX, Docker, and, of course, Java.

Java 133

Java Hardware Tuning Metrics 133

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 171

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 171

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. Many respondents acquired certifications.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2020

As companies strive to innovate and deliver faster, modern software architecture is evolving at near the speed of light. With Azure Functions, engineers don’t have to worry about provisioning and maintaining underlying hardware; they simply upload their code, and it’s up and running seconds later. Dynatrace news.

Serverless 144

Serverless Azure Monitoring Lambda 144

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In these modern environments, every hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure component and every container, open-source tool, and microservice generates records of every activity. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Other EC2 instance types, such as C5 or M5, use the AWS Nitro Hypervisor.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

Thanks to Dynatrace AIOps this problem was detected automatically and routed to a remediation action Stephan implemented using AWS Lambda. If you want to watch the webinar you can either get the on-demand version in English or German: Modernize your IT-Service Operations with the Dynatrace Software Intelligence platform (English).

Lambda 175

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 175

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People often ask me if developing for the cloud is any different from developing on-premises software. The biggest difference between developing for the cloud and developing on-premises software is that in the cloud, you have much better access to how your customers are using your services. It really is. Verifying benchmark claims.

Cloud 135

Cloud Benchmarking Performance AWS 135

Brendan Gregg

MAY 1, 2022

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. You never know a company (or person) until you see them on their worst day.

Wireless 52

Wireless Hardware Open Source Cloud 52