Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As software performance degrades or fails, the chaos engineers’ findings enable developers to add resiliency into the code, so the application remains intact in an emergency. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Accelerates innovation.

Engineering 228

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 228

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. A brownout phase performs a preparatory background transfer of all the key state to a memory region shared with the new version. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). 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.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76