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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()?

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Massively speed up OneAgent lifecycle management with the enhanced REST API (Preview)

Dynatrace

Our largest customers are global companies with absolutely massive application stacks, spreading across cloud and enterprise platforms, multiple physical geographies, tens of thousands of virtual and physical hosts and hundreds of thousands of containers. But the deployment of OneAgents is not where the lifecycle of OneAgents ends.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()?

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Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Scalegrid

Understanding Hybrid Cloud Strategy A hybrid cloud merges the capabilities of public and private clouds into a singular, coherent system. On-Premises Data Center A hybrid cloud architecture necessitates that an organization retains full authority over its physical or virtual infrastructure within the private cloud segment.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

Lastly, the packager kicks in, adding a system layer to the asset, making it ready to be consumed by the clients. Virtual Assembly Figure 3 describes how a virtual assembly of the encoded chunks replaces the physical assembly used in our previous architecture. For write operations, those challenges do not apply.

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