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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Including Nitro
AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: explaining the different virtualization types, from emulation and binary substitution, paravirtualization and Xen, PV, HVM, and PVHVM modes, and the new Nitro hypervisor
Brendan Gregg
Brendan Gregg's homepage: I use this site to share various things, mostly my work with computers, specifically, computer performance analysis and methodology.
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Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst explores different hierarchal visualizations by visualizing file system or disk space.
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OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic
OS X 10.9.3 Recurring Panics
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Unikernel Profiling from dom0
Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0. This post investigates performance profiling of Unikernels, and with a proof of concept shows that with a little work a lot of observability is possible.
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Linux perf rides the rocket
Kernel Line Tracing: Linux perf Rides the Rocket