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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes Amazon EC2 Instances for Performance (CMP325)
Amazon Web Services
A Netflix performance engineer presents how Netflix tunes EC2 instances, covering instance type choice, Xen modes, SR-IOV and kernel tuning. The goal is near bare-metal performance in the cloud.
HN cites it as an example of workload-dependent performance tuning at scale and of Netflix's AWS practices.
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