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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

High Scalability

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Bill English : What we did was lease two video circuits from the phone company. That was our video link. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. Going back we had two dedicated 1,200-baud lines: high-speed lines at the time. Cables of course going down into the room at both ends.

Internet 141

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 141

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Speeds incident response. By learning what failure scenarios are possible, these teams can speed troubleshooting, repairs, and incident response. The history of chaos engineering.

Engineering 218

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 218

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 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on [YouTube]: The slides are [online] and as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video). Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 9, 2022

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. One is general technology advice on the state of the art in development practices, along the lines of the Cloud for CEOs booklet I published for AWS in 2019.

IoT 52

IoT Best Practices AWS Media 52

Dynatrace

JUNE 30, 2020

In my role as DevOps and Autonomous Cloud Activist at Dynatrace, I get to talk to a lot of organizations and teams, and advise them on how to speed up delivery while also increasing the delivery in order to minimize the impact on operations. Thanks to Session Replay you can even see the full user journey in a 4k video like replay.

Lambda 174

Lambda Monitoring Cloud DevOps 174

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. This may be the opposite of my famous [shouting video]: This time I'm suppressing vibration to make a disk work.) The latencies here look like they are a mix of normal speed (~1.9

Performance 142

Performance Latency Speed Systems 142

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. Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The video is now on YouTube : The slides are online and as a PDF : first prev next last / permalink/zoom In Q&A I was asked about CXL (compute express link) which was fortunate as I had planned to cover it and then forgot, so the question let me talk about it (although Q&A is missing from the video). Ford, et al., “TCP

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

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

Mobile 108

Mobile Development AWS Games 108

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. We were supposed to have fiber to the home by now. I don’t, do you?

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. This may be the opposite of my famous [shouting video]: This time I'm suppressing vibration to make a disk work.) The latencies here look like they are a mix of normal speed (~1.9

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

Brendan Gregg

MAY 8, 2021

An average of 434 ms is awful, and a small queue size (aqu-sz) indicates it's a problem with the disk and not the workload applied. This may be the opposite of my famous [shouting video]: This time I'm suppressing vibration to make a disk work.) The latencies here look like they are a mix of normal speed (~1.9

Performance 40

Performance Latency Speed Systems 40

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

5G expects a latency of 1ms , which considering that the speed of light means the data center can’t be more than 186 miles away, or 93 miles for a round trip, assuming an instant response. They want to compete with AWS or Azure, and want to use OpenStack as a foundation for a commercial offering. Watch the Video.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

After content ingestion, inspection and encoding, the packaging step encapsulates encoded video and audio in codec agnostic container formats and provides features such as audio video synchronization, random access and DRM protection. Packaging has always been an important step in media processing.

Cloud 237

Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. AWS called this [enhanced networking]. The first was c3.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is that, as developers, we can do an awful lot about it. I find it slightly reassuring that, despite there being many websites with very low speeds and high emissions, most of the results are clustered in the bottom right of the chart. Recommended reading : How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) LCP measures the perceived load speed of a webpage from a user’s perspective. This could be an image, a block of text, or even an embedded video. The shorter the TTFB, the better the perceived speed of the site from the user’s perspective. Consider Static Content Delivery and CDN.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74

O'Reilly

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various implementations–from the industrial-grade AWS SageMaker Autopilot and Google Cloud Vertex AI , to offerings from smaller players–but, in a nutshell, some developers spotted that same for() loop and built a slick UI on top. Only the larger shops have the bandwidth to really bring someone up to speed.

Tuning 130

Tuning Open Source AWS Software 130

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? AI isn’t yet at the point where it can write as well as an experienced human, but if your company needs catalog descriptions for hundreds of items, speed may be more important than brilliant prose.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Web pages, such as the one you’re reading now, have text, images, videos and other assets to bring information to you. Along with images, the next heaviest assets are videos. Once again, with the microservices mindset, streaming of videos should be left to service providers such as YouTube, Vimeo and other online streaming services.

Cache 143

Cache Website Mobile Google 143

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Also called “static assets,” these files include CSS and JavaScript, both written by the application developer and third-party libraries, as well as PDFs, software installers, images, music, videos, and icons. Static files range from a few kilobytes of CSS to gigabytes of video. These files are only used client-side.

Media 69

Media Cache Storage AWS 69

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. Twitch developer documentation hosted on AWS, edited on CloudCannon. The site will load in a snap. Large preview ).

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

To speed up queries on non-key attributes, you can specify global secondary indexes. When designing a new application that will operate in the AWS cloud, first take a look at DynamoDB when selecting a database. What is the top score ever recorded for the game "Meteor Blasters"? Which user had the highest score for "Galaxy Invaders"?

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

. ## Observability Here's the big picture of performance observability tools on Linux, from my [Linux performance] page, where I also have diagrams for other tool types, as well as videos and slides of prior Linux performance talks: I also have a USE Method: Linux Performance Checklist , as a different way to navigate and apply the tools.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

For example, anyone who wanted to teach a robot how to walk in the age of automation had to exactly calculate every single angle of slope from the upper to lower thigh, as well as the speed of movement and other parameters, and then formulate them as a command in a programming language. Machine learning can make human labor more effective.

Artificial Intelligence 76

Artificial Intelligence Technology Technology IoT 76

Smashing Magazine

JULY 14, 2021

We’ve covered how to design a perfect slider in detail already, but probably the most important feature that every slider needs is to support different speeds of interaction. A slider that supports three speeds of interaction: a slider for quick exploration, a stepper for granular jumps and text input field fallback for more precision.

Design 142

Design Retail Ecommerce Mobile 142

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s used extensively in our media processing platform, which includes services like Archer and runs features like video encoding and title image generation on tens of thousands of Amazon EC2 instances. We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. We have one file?

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

CSS - Tricks

MAY 3, 2021

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Transportation 86

Transportation Cache Google Mobile 86

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Includes dozens of themes and plugins and is built on speed and stability. Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal and includes support for existing CLI tools like Git, npm, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud, and more. Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ). Large preview ).

Development 133

Development Google Storage Open Source 133

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights or Page Speed Insights API (no, it isn’t deprecated!), You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Large preview ). Large preview ).

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study, or a proof of concept using the Performance API on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Start Render time, Speed Index ). Treo Sites provides competitive analysis based on real-world data.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

You need a business stakeholder buy-in, and to get it, you need to establish a case study on how speed benefits metrics and Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs ) they care about. Note : If you use Page Speed Insights (no, it isn’t deprecated), you can get CrUX performance data for specific pages instead of just the aggregates.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103