How Netflix tunes Amazon EC2 instances for performance
Amazon Web Services · Talk · 57 min · 2017 · YouTube title: AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes Amazon EC2 Instances for Performance (CMP325)
Why it's here
HN cites it as an example of workload-dependent performance tuning at scale and of Netflix's AWS practices.
What it covers
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.