Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

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). Java, for example, has the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. PMC analysis (2017). More on that soon.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. It was the most challenging job among those I interviewed for.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. This has led to the recent release of our new Lambda monitoring extension supporting Node.js, Java, and Python. Much of what’s covered in this blog post is taken from that talk. Dynatrace news.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

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. There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. When I joined Netflix in April 2014, we had over 40 million subscribers in 41 countries. Getting frame pointer support in Java was another project I did a while ago. Java core dump analysis for a crashing JVM. -

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