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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. In those days, my main goal was to take the advances in building the highly dedicated High Performance Cluster environments and turn them into commodity technologies for the enterprise to use.

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Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications

Dotcom-Montior

Web monitoring is a comprehensive term that describes the activity of testing a website or web application for its availability and performance. Each operation performed by the client will be taken as a web request and the result will be a full page reload at the client-side. Network latency. Hardware resources.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix?—?Automated Imagery Generation

The Netflix TechBlog

entertainment?—?and Server-generated assets, since client-side generation would require the retrieval of many individual images, which would increase latency and time-to-render. To reduce latency, assets should be generated in an offline fashion and not in real time. the background image shown above).

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Your workloads, encapsulated in containers, can be deployed freely across different clouds or your own hardware. When you combine all of this, you can ensure that your apps are allotted the appropriate amount of CPU and memory in the most effective way possible, saving you money and improving performance.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Web Performance APIs.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Here's some output from my zfsdist tool, in bcc/BPF, which measures ZFS latency as a histogram on Linux: # zfsdist. Tracing ZFS operation latency. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C People rarely create them manually.