DZone

APRIL 26, 2019

In the era of Digital Transformation (DX) the IT landscape has expanded to environments that rely extensively on virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and cloud computing. As a result, the number of servers and the quantity of traffic have been exploding exponentially. The cohesive, albeit heterogeneous on-premises IT environments of the past have given way to a disaggregated, interdependent mélange of compute, network, and storage components, both on-premises and in the p

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 26, 2019

For the YOW! Conference Australia 2018 tour I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote talk about performance analysis at Netflix. I summarized the Netflix stack and explained how we examine performance problems cloud-wide, and then how we can drill down to instances using flame graphs and other tools. In some ways it is like a 60 minute boot-camp for new hires (if you're about to start work at Netflix, or just did, you should find it valuable).

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Cloud Performance 43

SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

Have you ever contacted Microsoft or a Microsoft partner and discussed with them what it would cost to move to the cloud? If so, you may have heard about the Azure SQL Database DTU calculator , and you may have also read about how it has been reverse engineered by Andy Mallon. The DTU calculator is a free tool you can use to upload performance metrics from your server, and use the data to determine the appropriate service tier if you were to migrate that server to an Azure SQL Database (or to a

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High Scalability

APRIL 26, 2019

Wake up! It's HighScalability time: Found! The One Ring. In space ! Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. And who doesn't these days? On Amazon it has 45 mostly 5 star reviews (103 on Goodreads). They'll learn a lot and hold you in even greater awe. $30 million : Apple's per month AWS bill ( a ~50% reduction ); 73% : Azure YoY growth; 3,500 : times per day andon cords are

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