Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The private bpftrace repository has just been made public, which is big news for DTrace fans. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: Attaching 2 probes. ^C

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Brendan Gregg

MAY 16, 2017

I previously wrote about Netflix in [2015] and [2016], and if you are interested in what it's like to work here, I already covered much in those posts. As before, no one at Netflix has asked me to write this, and this is my personal blog and not a company post. I've now worked at Netflix for over three years. Time flies!

Java 75

Java Entertainment Engineering Scalability 75

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Many people have contacted me recently about switching from Solaris (or illumos) to Linux, especially since most of the Solaris kernel team were let go this year (including my former colleagues, I'm sorry to hear). Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The private bpftrace repository has just been made public, which is big news for DTrace fans. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: Attaching 2 probes. ^C

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40