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! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

The Dynatrace all-in-one software intelligence platform gives your team real-time visibility into your underlying infrastructure —be it on bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or a hybrid solution. Step 5 – xMatters triggers a runbook in Ansible to fix the disk latency. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

Systems 176

Systems Latency DevOps Azure 176

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. There is no need to plan for extra resources, update operating systems, or install frameworks. The provider is essentially your system administrator. What is serverless computing?

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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.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

That is because Kubernetes provides several benefits from a performance perspective. However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Dynatrace news. below 500ms) and error rates (e.g. lower than 2%.).

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Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 200

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. But first, about this disk.

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Performance Latency Speed Systems 142

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 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden.

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AWS Energy Automotive Traffic 167

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?

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Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. Tailoring resource allocation efficiently ensures faster application performance in alignment with organizational demands.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

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. Imagine you’re in a war room. So, what happens next? What’s missing is the context to tie it all together.

Cloud 156

Cloud Monitoring Latency Games 156

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. Repeating the benchmark once again demonstrates that performance has degraded somewhat. psql pgbench <<_eof1_ qecho adding node citus3.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

We’re excited to announce Dynatrace has been named as a select launch partner for a newly launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering, Amazon ECS Anywhere. This new extension allows customers to deploy native Amazon ECS tasks in any target environment including traditional AWS managed infrastructure and now customer-managed infrastructure.

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AWS IoT Virtualization Infrastructure 131

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience Liran Cohen 2023-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 2023-08-03T13:06:00+00:00 I work for Bookaway , a digital travel brand. Large preview ) We’ve known for a long time that fast page performance influences search engine rankings.

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Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Making applications observable—relying on metrics, logs, and traces to understand what software is doing and how it’s performing—has become increasingly important as workloads are shifting to multicloud environments. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace.

Metrics 168

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 168

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., Systems built with lots of microservices have different operational characteristics to those built from a small number of monoliths, we’d like to study and better understand those differences.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

By analyzing real-time data, AI-based models can: Adjust the allocation of resources in response to demand Boost business performance Reduce unnecessary expenditures Lead to significant cost savings Improve scalability Operational Efficiency through Automation Automation is a significant way AI enhances cloud operations.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. HPCG is led by Japan’s RIKEN Fugaku system at 16 petaflops, which is 3% of it’s peak capacity. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0

Architecture 52

Architecture Latency Benchmarking AWS 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. In a monitoring scenario, you typically preconfigure dashboards that are meant to alert you to performance issues you expect to see later.

Metrics 363

Metrics Open Source Monitoring Infrastructure 363

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

When AWS launched, it changed how developers thought about IT services: What used to take weeks or months of purchasing and provisioning turned into minutes with Amazon EC2. Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda. You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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Lambda AWS Cloud Scalability 136

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

Open Source 40

Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

AWS Developer Relations on how the shift from Robot Operating System (ROS) 1 to ROS 2 will change the landscape for all robot lovers. OPN303 BPF performance analysis (repeats) Learn how Netflix uses eBPF to create powerful performance analysis tools. Alejandra Olvera-Novack?—?AWS

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Open Source AWS Lambda Serverless 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Given the simplicity and economic appeal of FaaS, it is interesting to explore designs that preserve the autoscaling and operational benefits of current offerings, while adding performant, cost-efficient and consistent shared state and communication. Oh, and there’s a scheduler too of course to keep all the plates spinning. Consistency.

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Lambda Serverless Cache Latency 98

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! To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. RAMA , a Brazilian financial services firm and AWS customer : â??The

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AWS Latency Storage Big Data 114

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. But first, about this disk.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

People often tell me they don't understand performance tool output because they can't tell what's "good" or "bad." It can be hard as performance is subjective. I recently encountered terrible disk performance and thought it'd be useful to collect Linux tool screenshots and share them for reference. But first, about this disk.

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 We achieve 5.5

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

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. A guiding principle.

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Database AWS Network Design 106

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

What Dynatrace deployment is the best fit for your technology stack, and is the OneAgent compatible with your system? With this approach, you can add any relevant metric(s) from your process to Dynatrace, and then chart it, alert on it, or correlate it with your process’ performance. OneAgent & application metrics.

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Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 136