Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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DZone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Virtualization has become a crucial element for companies and individuals looking to optimize their computing resources in today’s rapidly changing technological landscape. Mini PCs have become effective virtualization tools in this setting, providing a portable yet effective solution for a variety of applications.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

EPU: Emotion Processing Unit is designed by Emoshape , as the MCU microchip design to enable a true emotional response in AI, robots and consumer electronic devices as a result of a virtually unlimited cognitive process. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology. By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Today’s applications are built on multiple technologies, relying on vast networks of third-party providers and CDN’s. The scripts can be uploaded into the LoadView platform and replayed by a virtually unlimited number of simultaneous users, giving you actual performance from real browsers.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

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Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the context of IT (Information Technology), an incident is simply an event or issue that disrupts normal operation or quality of service. ITSM is one of the practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Asset Management.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firecracker is the virtual machine monitor (VMM) that powers AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, and has been used in production at AWS since 2018. The traditional view is that there is a choice between virtualization with strong security and high overhead, and container technologies with weaker security and minimal overhead.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CaaS automates the processes of hosting, deploying, and managing container technologies. Instead, enterprises manage individual containers on virtual machines (VMs). IaaS provides direct access to compute resources such as servers, storage, and networks. In FaaS environments, providers manage all the hardware.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable. In some cases, this can be enhanced by combining data virtualization techniques with microservices architecture. A data pipeline can process data in a different order than they were received.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 29, 2022

They use the same hardware, APIs, tools, and management controls for both the public and private clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost : This offering provides pre-configured hardware and software for customers to run native AWS computing, networking, and services on-premises in a cloud-native manner.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed. If you run the Installer again, we use what I call “smart download” technology. As you see the new UI look for our installer, you may be wondering is this a completely different installer technology?

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner, Dynatrace easily integrates with AWS to help you stay on top of the dynamics of your enterprise cloud environment?. It differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a fully tested product on AWS Outposts. “We Dynatrace news.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. there cannot be high availability.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI has been the biggest technology story of 2023. Executive Summary We’ve never seen a technology adopted as fast as generative AI—it’s hard to believe that ChatGPT is barely a year old. When 26% of a survey’s respondents have been working with a technology for under a year, that’s an important sign of momentum.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., The recipe was straightforward. Peer-to-Peer.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These devices ran on a diverse range of OS versions, screen resolutions, and network types. Once you have chosen your target devices, consider the architectural aspect of your hardware. New devices will launch more rigorously in the near future and you would always find yourself struggling to keep your hardware up to the minute.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years after Azure SQL Database was released to when Azure SQL Managed Instance was in public preview, and "vCores" (virtual cores) were announced for Azure SQL Database. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier.

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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). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

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Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis. Step 1: Get to Know your Technology & Service Stack. Before starting any migration project, you must have a good overview of all your hosts, processes, services and technologies. Which technologies are candidates to be moved? What’s in your stack?”.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/sparse_files.asp ) ​​ on the ​​ Microsoft Developer Network ​​ (MSDN). ​​ The larger sector sizes involve newer technology and require API changes at the operating system level. scid=kb ; en-us;828339 ) on the Microsoft Web site.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Networking, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 OCSP stapling, EV/DV certificates, packaging, IPv6, QUIC, HTTP/3. If you don’t have a device at hand, emulate mobile experience on desktop by testing on a throttled 3G network (e.g. Moto G4) on a slow 3G network, emulated at 400ms RTT and 400kbps transfer speed. 300ms RTT, 1.6 Mbps down, 0.8

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