Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

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. Networking. We help where we can. File System. Storage I/O.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 20, 2020

The application is a combination of neural embeddings , which encode the semantic information in words and sentences, and locality sensitive hashing , which efficiently assigns approximately nearby items to the same buckets and faraway items to different buckets. 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, …] Notice that the vector consists of many zeros.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Network Interface. The other perspective that’s presented on the Azure Automation dashboard is the state of your deployment runs. Azure Data Factory is a hybrid data integration service that enables you to quickly and efficiently create automated data pipelines—without writing any code. Azure Data Factory v1.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work. Stay tuned for more in 2022! Large preview ). Curious to give it a try?

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! We’d like to pack models as efficiently as possible on the underlying infrastructure. A case for managed and model-less inference serving Yadwadkar et al.,

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. We looked at a hosts network devices, the flows between them and then at the process level details. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moving away from the use of dedicated instances that were constrained in quantity, we tapped into Netflix’s internal trough created due to autoscaling microservices, leading to significant improvements in computation elasticity as well as resource utilization efficiency. depending on the use case.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.) This is where you will fine-tune authentication mechanisms, storage paths, security policies, and memory allocation settings to optimize them for your specific use case(s). It’s a complex process involving various factors and meticulous planning.

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MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization. – Aurel V.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards. You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. Moving beyond point estimates is very close to present-day AI challenges.

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Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. I was most intrigued by the “Digital Thread” in Lindy Quick’s presentation for Northrop Grumman.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This result s in w eb – service integrations perforat ing firewalls, network content not being captured by intrusion detection and vulnerability scanners miss ing what’s running in production. . One single platform drives efficient DevSecOps collaboration and automated vulnerability management.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

As we will see, QUIC and HTTP/3 indeed have great web performance potential, but mainly for users on slow networks. If your average visitor is on a fast cabled or cellular network, they probably won’t benefit from the new protocols all that much. An often used metaphor is that of a pipe used to transport water. Congestion Control.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Fast forward to the present day and we find ourselves in a world where the number of connected devices is constantly increasing. The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. What message process warranty level do we require? At least once? At most once?

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Eclipse is open source and has all of the features you’d expect out of an IDE such as PHP profiling, syntax highlighting and unit testing; however, it requires a lot of resources to run, which could present an issue for smaller development teams. ScriptCase With ScriptCase you can create web-enabled applications in a matter of minutes.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 31, 2019

They prevent abuse by ad networks and many people are realizing the benefits of that with increased performance and better battery life. If they work hard to make their site efficient, I’m happy to provide my eyeballs. Thanks to Yoav Weiss and Alex Russell for helping me fine-tune some of my thoughts on this.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. Both Xen and KVM have had many performance and security improvements, and workloads can now be tuned to run at almost bare metal speeds (say, a 3% loss or less).

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

He spent a lot of time fine-tuning this CLR function to efficiently parse a string. Over on SQLServerCentral, Jeff Moden presented a splitter function that rivaled the performance of CLR , so I thought it only fair to include a variation using a similar approach in this round-up. OPTION ( MAXRECURSION 0 ) ; RETURN ; END.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users appreciate high-quality visuals, but care needs to be taken to deliver those hero images, product photos and cat memes as efficiently and effectively as possible. The efficiency of a codec can be mainly measured by how much compression it can achieve. Images are the most popular resource type on the web and are often the largest.

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