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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). I should do a blog post just on SFrames. Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!)

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html How long does it take to read the time?

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. Much of what’s covered in this blog post is taken from that talk. In a future blog post, we’ll explain how to interpret Lambda metrics. Dynatrace news. just a first step—we have lots of?great?functionality?in

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How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

Your APM tool should help you establish performance benchmarks, so you can understand what good performance looks like. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. The post How to evaluate modern APM solutions appeared first on Dynatrace blog.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html [unused]: [link] [unused2]: [link]

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated. Our design for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 is still proven and meets the demands for many of our customers. This chart shows our scaled results using a OLTP workload derived from TPC benchmarks. See more in this blog post.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Delayed three years ( Chrome 40, November 2014 vs. Safari 11.1,

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