Brendan Gregg at illumos Day (an event I also organized and ran). Cloud computing facilitates rapid deployment and scaling, often pushing high load at applications under continual development. DTrace allows immediate analysis of issues on live production systems even in these demanding environments – no need to restart or run a special debug kernel. For… Continue reading DTracing the Cloud
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Making the Impossible Possible: Disposable Staging Environments At Scale
Eric Sproul of OmniTI speaks on ZFS Day. How does one go about running intensive business-intelligence (BI) database queries on rapidly changing data? We found ourselves pondering this question while helping Etsy do periodic reporting on their massive BI database. We harnessed the power of ZFS to create lightweight, yet writable, clones of production data… Continue reading Making the Impossible Possible: Disposable Staging Environments At Scale
ZFS Day Panel: The State of ZFS on…
A panel at ZFS Day covering the state of ZFS on Linux, FreeBSD, illumos, and more, moderated by Deirdré Straughan wih Matt Ahrens, Justin Gibbs, Will Andrews, Don Brady, Brian Behlendorf You might also like: Joyent Retrospective
ZFS State of the Union
Matt Ahrens’ overview on the state of open ZFS, at ZFS Day. You might also like: No related posts.
Enhanced OS Virtualization for the Cloud
Joyent’s Jerry Jelinek speaks at illumos Day. SmartOS is an Illumos-derived distro developed by Joyent as the base OS for their cloud. This presentation focuses on the OS virtualization capabilities of SmartOS and details the extensive enhancements made to the OS, based on real-world production experience deploying SmartOS in the Joyent cloud. You might also… Continue reading Enhanced OS Virtualization for the Cloud