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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. eBPF does more. eBPF is hard to use directly, so bcc was created as a Python front-end.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

four petabytes : added to Internet Archive per year; 60,000 : patents donated by Microsoft to the Open Invention Network; 30 million : DuckDuckGo daily searches; 5 seconds : Google+ session length; 1 trillion : ARM device goal; $40B : Softbank investment in 5G; 30 : Happy Birthday IRC!; Full blog post here.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on.

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Symphonia at Velocity 2018, and more Serverless Insights

The Symphonia

This summer also marks the 4-yearly event that is La Copa Mundial (we only get Telemundo in my apartment, not Fox Sports Network) but since the good old US of A are absent from the men’s World Cup this year, football fever is distinctly frigid. Next up Lynn Langit gave a talk on Serverless SQL , updated for 2018.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

Alex Russell

It's time once again to update our priors regarding the global device and network situation. The blog you're reading loads over a single connection in ~1.2 seconds on the target device and network profile, consuming 120KiB of critical path resources to become interactive, only 8KiB of which is script. and 75KiB of JavaScript.

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Further improvements to OneAgent security for Windows and Linux

Dynatrace

If you’ve watched the evolution of OneAgent closely in our release notes and blog posts, you’ll know that we’re highly focused on security. The post Further improvements to OneAgent security for Windows and Linux appeared first on Dynatrace blog. Dynatrace news. We’d love to hear from you.

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OneAgent & ActiveGate release notes, version 1.167

Dynatrace

This previous version of OneAgent for AIX introduced improved detection of IP addresses for network interfaces. LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. LTS)—Oracle discontinued Premium Support in September 2018. For more information about monitoring modes, see Get started with infrastructure monitoring.

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