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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. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages (Part II)

The Morning Paper

Trade-offs under pressure: heuristics and observations of teams resolving internet service outages , Allspaw, Masters thesis, Lund University 2015. Today we’ll be digging into the analysis of an incident that took place at Etsy on December 4th, 2014. The blog post was subsequently unpublished.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

youtube]: [link] [PDF]: /Slides/LISA2021_ComputingPerformance.pdf [Systems Performance 2nd Edition]: /systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html [BPF Internals]: /blog/2021-06-15/bpf-internals.html [slideshare]: [link] [write about]: /blog/2021-07-03/how-to-add-bpf-observability.html

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Is the Tech Cycle More Important than the Fed Cycle?

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In 2014, Andy Kessler wrote an intriguing op-ed in the WSJ, positing that beginning in the last half of the 20th century, the tech cycle had replaced the Fed cycle as the engine responsible for economic growth. After decades of losing, labor is having a moment (link to blog). His argument went like this.

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Top Software testing trends to look out for in 2022

Testsigma

2014 saw the trend of mobile app testing as they were becoming a multi-billion dollar business all over the world. IoT (Internet of things) devices have been on an increase for a long time now. In 2021, more than 23 billion IoT devices were active and connected to the internet. Signup now. IoT automation testing.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

youtube]: [link] [PDF]: /Slides/LISA2021_ComputingPerformance.pdf [Systems Performance 2nd Edition]: /systems-performance-2nd-edition-book.html [BPF Internals]: /blog/2021-06-15/bpf-internals.html [xlideshare]: [link] [write about]: /blog/2021-07-03/how-to-add-bpf-observability.html [here]: /Slides/LISA2021_ComputingPerformance

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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. Colleagues/Internet I love using [Linux performance tools]. How long does it take to read the time? How would you _time_ time?

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