The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 3, 2019

Amazon and a lot of cloud vendors such as Microsoft and Google have services around machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and virtual assistants. However, what if you didn’t necessarily want to use a virtual assistant with audio, but integrate as part of a chat application in the form of a chatbot?

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AWS Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Google 97

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

The complexity of hybrid environments with multiple virtual machines and cloud solutions like AWS EKS, Azure AKS, or GCP GKE with hundreds of containers and their constantly changing lifecycles creates challenges for app owners, developers, SREs, and infrastructure owners.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Challenges The cloud network infrastructure that Netflix utilizes today consists of AWS services such as VPC, DirectConnect, VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, etc and Netflix owned devices. Without having network visibility, it’s difficult to improve our reliability, security and capacity posture. What is BPF?

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is especially true as organizations rely more on diverse and nimble cloud-native and open source technologies. With end-to-end visibility and the Dynatrace real-user monitoring (RUM) interface, his team analyzed what was going on and took defensive measures through the organization’s AWS WAF.

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Design Innovation DevOps Open Source 213

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

TheCube is running a virtual Supercloud event on August 9th , and I’m taking part in a panel moderated by John Furrier, along with two old “ clouderati ” friends Lori MacVittie of F5, who write a blog on Supercloud a few months ago, and Chris Hoff of Lastpass, a security expert who helped lead BofA’s technology platform for several years.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover how AI is reshaping the cloud and what this means for the future of technology. Infrastructure Excellence ScaleGrid’s infrastructure is designed to facilitate hosting in your cloud account and provides cost-saving options with AWS or Azure Reserved Instances or GCP.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021. primarily virtual?—?and

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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.,

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Expanding the Cloud - The AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Today AWS announced the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The concept of regions gives AWS customers control over the placement of their resources and services. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex. Our platform needed a full-stack approach, including virtual network infrastructure, containers, applications, and users. We knew APM was critical but no longer enough. We needed to go beyond APM.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Cloud certifications, specifically in AWS and Microsoft Azure, were most strongly associated with salary increases. LinkedIn elsewhere states that the annual turnover rate for technology employees is 13.2%—which As Figure 3 shows, the percentage of men and women respondents who saw no change was virtually identical (18%).

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

All Things Distributed

JUNE 30, 2017

Today, AWS customers are using the cloud to better serve their customers in many different ways. KRY is helping doctors virtually visit patients and accurately diagnose aliments by applying machine learning to symptoms. AI has incredible potential in this area. For instance, Zillow trains and retrains 7.5

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Artificial Intelligence Lambda AWS Virtualization 128

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.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

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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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

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Mobile Development AWS Games 108

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Many of you know Thorsten von Eicken as the founder of Rightscale , the company that has helped numerous organizations find their way onto AWS. U-Net also heavily influenced what later became the Virtual Network Architecture industry standard. Many of those engineering experiences found their way back into the paper.

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Network Latency Operating System Speed 96

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. Using AWS EC2 instance store vs EBS for MySQL: how to increase performance and decrease cost.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

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. Apps may run 2x to 10x slower, or worse.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

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Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. lightweight virtualization for Serverless Computing”.

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Lambda Serverless AWS Blockchain 40

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

The phrase “serverless computing” appears contradictory at first, but for years now, successful companies have understood the benefit of using serverless technologies to streamline operations and reduce costs. Inefficiencies cost technology companies up to $100 billion per year. What is serverless computing?

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Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. Dynatrace news. A quick primer on Lambda functions.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 218

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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 traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

AWS Lambda is enormously popular amongst our customers and while it was once perceived as just a new toy for startups who wanted to be at the cutting edge of technology, we’ve seen that many enterprise customers are now adding Lambda functions to their stacks. Dynatrace news. A quick primer on Lambda functions.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 179

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

For the past year, 5G cell technology has generated a lot of excitement–and a lot of hype. If carriers won’t build cell towers for current technology, they aren’t likely to build even more towers for 5G. 5G isn’t ideal for that, and the first indications are that it will require more power than current technologies.

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Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Integrating technology from private and public clouds and on-premises resources within one hybrid cloud platform creates an integrated IT infrastructure that leverages the strengths of each component. Defining Hybrid Cloud Strategy The decision-making process about where to situate data and applications is vital to any hybrid cloud solution.

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Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

Since BPF does so many things, it is becoming a technology name and no longer an acronym. It originated as Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended (aka eBPF) for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. I lost count at 30 !

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Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Similar to AWS Lambda , Azure Functions is a serverless compute service by Microsoft that can run code in response to predetermined events or conditions (triggers), such as an order arriving on an IoT system, or a specific queue receiving a new message. Dynatrace news. What is Azure Functions? Making the best use of Azure Functions.

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Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 136

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

VPC Flow Logs is an Amazon service that enables IT pros to capture information about the IP traffic that traverses network interfaces in a virtual private cloud, or VPC. As of today’s announcement, AWS and Dynatrace strengthen their commitment to their customers to continue to deliver quality and value. What is VPC Flow Logs?

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Traffic AWS Network Cloud 212

Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

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. This orchestration layer uses software-based tools to automate IT tasks and manage resources—virtualized or other.

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Infrastructure Cloud Azure AWS 179

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dynatrace AWS monitoring gives you an overview of the resources that are used in your AWS infrastructure along with their historical usage. And because Dynatrace can consume CloudWatch metrics, almost all your AWS usage information is available to you within Dynatrace. Dynatrace VMware and virtualization documentation .

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Analytics Infrastructure AWS Operating System 237

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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Cloud Media Storage Cache 237

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Various forms can take shape when discussing workloads within the realm of cloud computing environments – examples include order management databases, collaboration tools, videoconferencing systems, virtual desktops, and disaster recovery mechanisms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments.

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