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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults

Percona

Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month.

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Build and operate multicloud FaaS with enhanced, intelligent end-to-end observability

Dynatrace

For example, to handle traffic spikes and pay only for what they use. These functions are executed by a serverless platform or provider (such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions) that manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling and billing. Scale automatically based on the demand and traffic patterns.

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TCP: Out of Memory — Consider Tuning TCP_Mem

DZone

This application was running on multiple AWS EC2 instances behind Elastic Load Balancer. All other application instances were handling the traffic properly. Recently we experienced an interesting production problem. The application was running on a GNU/Linux OS, Java 8, Tomcat 8 application server.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

While the first guardian validates the traffic, the second guardian checks the business transactions generated during the observation period. More precisely, this team uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run fault injection to improve the application’s performance and resiliency.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

We took a hybrid head-based sampling approach that allows for recording 100% of traces for a specific and configurable set of requests, while continuing to randomly sample traffic per the policy set at ingestion point. We were adding new Cassandra nodes whenever the EC2 SSD instance stores of existing nodes reached maximum storage capacity.