Posts by Zhenyun Zhuang

Linux cgroups-based solutions (e.g., Docker, CoreOS) are increasingly being used to host multiple applications on the same host. We have been using cgroups at LinkedIn to build our own containerization product called LPS (LinkedIn Platform as a Service) and to investigate the impact of resource-limiting policies on application performance. This post presents our...

Coauthors: Cuong Tran and Jerry Weng Summary The Linux kernel feature of cgroups (Control Groups) is being increasingly adopted for running applications in multi-tenanted environments. Many projects (e.g., Docker and CoreOS) rely on cgroups to limit resources such as CPU and memory. Ensuring the high performance of the applications running in cgroups is very...

These days, solid state drives (SSD) are being increasingly adopted to alleviate the I/O performance bottlenecks of applications. Numerous measurement results have showcased the performance improvement brought by SSD as compared with hard disk drives (HDD). However, in most deployment scenarios, a SSD is simply treated as a “faster HDD.” Hence, the potential of...