Out of 94 benchmarks ran across all tested 4xlarge Amazon EC2 instances, the Graviton3 instance had the most first place finishes at 43 wins to Intel Xeon at 35 and the EPYC Milan instance at 16. When taking the geometric mean of all 94 benchmark results, the Graviton3 c7g.4xlarge narrowly passed the Xeon Ice Lake c6i.4xlarge instance type followed by the EPYC Milan c6a.4xlarge.

A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance types based on resource criteria like vcpus and memory - aws/amazon-ec2-instance-selector: A CLI tool and go library which recommends instance ty...

Automated deployments are the backbone of a strong DevOps environment. Without efficient, reliable, and repeatable software updates, engineers need to redirect their focus from developing new features to managing and debugging their deployments. Amazon first faced this challenge many years ago. When making the move to a service-oriented architecture, Amazon refactored its software into small independent services and restructured its organization into small autonomous teams. Each team took on full ownership of the development and operation of a single service, and they worked directly with their customers to improve it.

This post describes our migration journey of Spark from EMR on EC2 to EMR on EKS.

Haven’t updated my blog for quite a long time!I’m not just lazy. I’m super lazy. :-)from: https://www.teeturtle.com/products/super-lazyLinus Torvalds said “T...

This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON 'API' requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.