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High-Performance Serverless with Rust: Insights from Benjamen Pyle’s Talk at QCon San Francisco
Benjamen Pyle's talk showcased the power of combining Rust with AWS Lambda for high-performance, scalable, serverless applications. He highlighted Rust's safety and efficiency and its ability to minimize cold start times and costs. Pyle emphasized best practices like multi-Lambda designs and infrastructure like code, enabling developers to build solutions that drive efficiency and sustainability.
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Carle Lerche Talking at QCon SF about Rust: a Productive Language for Writing Database Applications
Discover how Rust is evolving beyond its systems programming roots to become a viable option for high-level applications. Carl Lerche, AWS principal engineer, showcased its productivity and safety for database-backed systems. Embrace Rust’s potential with innovative tools like Toasty and join the movement to enhance its growing ecosystem for ambitious backend development.
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Improving the Efficiency of Goku Time-Series Database at Pinterest
Pinterest has modernized and enhanced its Goku time-series database. The recent updates focus on optimizing storage and resource usage without compromising service quality.
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Microsoft Unveils Azure Cobalt 100-Based Virtual Machines: Enhanced Performance and Sustainability
Microsoft's Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are now generally available. They deliver up to 50% improved price performance with energy-efficient Arm architecture. Tailored for diverse workloads, these VMs offer various configurations, including general-purpose and memory-optimized options. Their release supports sustainable computing, aligning with Microsoft's commitment to lower carbon footprints.
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Leveraging eBPF for Improved Infrastructure Observability
To efficiently and effectively investigate multi-tenant system performance, Netflix has been experimenting with eBPF to instrument the Linux kernel to gather continuous, deeper insights into how processes are scheduled and detect "noisy neighbors".
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AWS Unveils Parallel Computing Service to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
AWS has unveiled its Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a fully-managed solution designed to streamline high-performance computing (HPC) for scientists and engineers. With capabilities like easy cluster setup via EC2 and support for Slurm, PCS accelerates complex simulations, empowering users to tackle challenging workloads effortlessly across multiple global regions.
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TikTok Releases Tool to Improve Monorepo Performance
Engineers from TikTok have announced a new tool - Sparo - to help deal with the problems associated with using monorepos, solving many of the performance issues that come with larger repos.
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Netflix Adopts Virtual Threads: a Case Study on Performance and Pitfalls
Netflix, a long-time Java adopter, recently upgraded to Java 21. They are now harnessing new features such as generational ZGC and virtual threads to improve performance across their extensive microservices fleet. While virtual threads, designed for high-throughput concurrent applications, showed early promise, they also brought unique challenges in real-world scenarios.
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Project Leyden Announces Early Access Build: 2-3x Start-up Improvements for Java Applications
The OpenJDK has reached a milestone by announcing the Early Access (EA) build for Project Leyden. This build represents over a year of development efforts to enhance Java application performance, particularly focusing on start-up times. The preliminary testing has shown impressive results, with popular application frameworks experiencing a 2-3x improvement in start-up times.
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Amazon EC2 C7i-flex Instances: Price-Performance Benefits for Compute-Intensive Workloads
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, which, according to the company, deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances.
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Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% after Switching to XFS
Allegro experimented with different performance optimization options to improve Apache Kafka producer tail latency and eventually switched all its clusters to the XFS filesystem. The company used Kafka protocol sniffing, JVM profiling, and eBPF, which proved instrumental in identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks.
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QCon London: Scaling Microservices Architecture and Technology Organization at Trainline
During the recent QCon London conference, Trainline’s CTO spoke about the evolution of the company’s system architecture and organizational structure over the last five years. The company had to adapt to market changes and growing customer expectations by improving the performance and reliability of its technology platform.
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities.
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Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
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Netflix Launches bpftop Aimed at Enhancing eBPF Performance Efficiency
Netflix has recently announced bpftop, a command-line utility aimed at enhancing the optimization and monitoring of eBPF programs. bpftop provides a real-time snapshot of eBPF programs in operation. It shows metrics such as the average duration of program execution, the number of events processed every second, and an approximation of the total CPU usage percentage for each program.