Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Your BPF bytecode may still execute on different kernels, but it may be reading the wrong struct offsets and printing garbage output! My [BPF Performance Tools] book focused on running BCC tools and coding in bpftrace, and that doesn't change. Fortunately it's only 15 pages of appendix material out of the 880-page book.

C++ 145

C++ Programming Storage Code 145

Brendan Gregg

JULY 15, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. You may find it helps you, too, which is why it is on the cover. ## Why Your Book? Guess how many books there are about Docker?

Systems 111

Systems Performance Education Technology 111

Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

I was honored to write a preface to the great new book Master Apache JMeter. Here it is: An important event, directly related to this book, happened recently and probably went unnoticed. This is where the book is invaluable setting a framework of knowledge and notions, so you at least would understand what you should be looking for.

DevOps 113

DevOps Testing Testing Tools Performance Testing 113

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

The idea for this series — and the book which will follow it — was sparked by a casual conversation, but writing it has had a profound impact on me and the work I make for the web. From early on, he was inspired by print designs, especially magazines, and used this influence to design the college’s yearbooks. Andrew Clarke.

Design 119

Design Media Entertainment Website 119

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

Either the raw output would be printed in a separate window, or the results would be shown as a line graph. I printed socketsnoop.d. I printed the other tools and saw the same – they were _all mine_. Later on I wrote much better socket tools (in my [DTrace] and [BPF] books). This seemed __quite underwhelming__.

Open Source 144

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 144

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. For many more bpftrace examples, check out my latest [book], which is arriving in time for Christmas (the paper version). . # # Tone generation from: [link] # # 29-Apr-2019 Brendan Gregg Created this. If desired, it could be rewritten in BCC to avoid calling aplay(1).

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C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

My [BPF Performance Tools] book has plenty of examples. For many more bpftrace examples, check out my latest [book], which is arriving in time for Christmas (the paper version). . # # Tone generation from: [link] # # 29-Apr-2019 Brendan Gregg Created this. Remember how this was a one-liner in bpftrace?

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C++ Education Java AWS 52

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fans are clearly putting faux-Rutkowski as wallpaper on their laptops, if not ordering high-resolution prints and putting them on their walls. Would a publisher generate a faux-image as a book cover? Footnotes The title of Harold Bloom’s book on Shakespeare. If this is a joke, who is the butt?

Social Media 85

Social Media Innovation Media Tuning 85

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

I’ll be covering image optimization in more depth in Smashing Magazine’s new book on Image Optimization. Editorial Note: Addy’s Book on Image Optimization. We’re happy and honored to have teamed up with Addy to publish a dedicated book on image optimization , and the book is now finally here. Print + eBook.

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Media Network Metrics Mobile 145

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

In the CLI the print dict command shows us the available options. print dict. In the CLI all output is printed to the console preceded by the name of Virtual User producing it. The loadscript command does the same at the CLI with the print script command showing the script loaded. Build Options. GUI Driver Script.

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Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 26, 2021

I spend many hours documenting advanced debugging stories for books, talks, and blog posts, but many things I never have time to share. bpftrace tool from my BPF book traces the signal:signal_generate tracepoint, which should catch every type of generated signal, including tgkill(2). No editing, spell checking, or comments.

Storage 145

Storage C++ Processing Database 145

Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2019

For example, you can view the raw HTML of the page by typing in: print(response.text). extract(): url = response.urljoin(href) print(url) req = scrapy.Request(url, callback=self.parse_titles) time.sleep(5) yield req. To access the shell, enter this into your command line: scrapy shell “[link]. extract() yield data.

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Scalability Website C++ Servers 87

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2022

I could quickly scan a single page of a book and, in theory, have read all the content in about 6 seconds (because I have scanned my eyes across all the text quickly). As identified in Miles Tinker’s book Legibility of print , this character is one of the most easily recognizable letters. Measurement: Time measuring.

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Performance Design Speed Testing 94

Tasktop

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The book details my journey from empathizing with the frustrations of developers trying to deliver value to customers, to empathizing with the frustrations of entire organizations dealing with the onslaught of digital disruption. But that has been my mission, and the stated goal of the book.

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DevOps Software Architecture Open Source Architecture 45

Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

This allowed students free movement between disciplines, so I moved from the painting studio to printmaking and spent the next few years happily making prints. In fact, there’s very little difference—except inky hands — between running a test print and refreshing a browser window. Both benefit from regular iteration and testing.

Design 92

Design Media Mobile Energy 92

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That requires a mentor; Tim O’Reilly has always said that our books should be like “someone wise and experienced looking over your shoulder and making recommendations.” Programming (like any other skill) isn’t just about learning the syntax and semantics of a programming language; it’s about learning to solve problems effectively.

Programming 72

Programming Education Code Testing 72

Brendan Gregg

JULY 14, 2019

BPF (eBPF) tracing is a superpower that can analyze everything, and I'll show you how in my upcoming book BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability , coming soon from Addison Wesley. BPF is in the Linux kernel. ## Why Your Book? Guess how many books there are about Docker? I lost count at 30 !

Systems 40

Systems Performance Education Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 23, 2020

For the past few years, books about HTML and CSS have almost vanished from my studio bookshelves. I replaced them with books on art direction, editorial, and graphic design. There’s no Wikipedia page devoted to Storch, and no one has published a book about him or his work. Andrew Clarke. 2020-03-23T13:00:00+00:00.

Design 106

Design Media Energy Availability 106

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Your BPF bytecode may still execute on different kernels, but it may be reading the wrong struct offsets and printing garbage output! My [BPF Performance Tools] book focused on running BCC tools and coding in bpftrace, and that doesn't change. Fortunately it's only 15 pages of appendix material out of the 880-page book.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Storage Code 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Your BPF bytecode may still execute on different kernels, but it may be reading the wrong struct offsets and printing garbage output! My [BPF Performance Tools] book focused on running BCC tools and coding in bpftrace, and that doesn't change. Fortunately it's only 15 pages of appendix material out of the 880-page book.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Storage Code 40

Tasktop

JUNE 6, 2019

One of the many revolutionary ideas of the Flow Framework – from Mik’s Amazon-bestselling book Project to Product – is that there are four categories of deliverable work that are pulled by the customer across the software delivery value stream: Features (business value). Both relate to borrowing against the future.

DevOps 80

DevOps Software Software Analytics 80

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

Either the raw output would be printed in a separate window, or the results would be shown as a line graph. I printed socketsnoop.d. I printed the other tools and saw the same – they were _all mine_. Later on I wrote much better socket tools (in my [DTrace] and [BPF] books). This seemed __quite underwhelming__.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

Nick Desaulniers

AUGUST 14, 2015

Book Signing. This was the first time I got to see my book printed in physical form! It looked gorgeous, hardcover printed in color. Rather than touch the screen, there was a field of tiny speakers that would blast your finger with sound when it entered to simulate the feeling of vibration.

Virtualization 48

Virtualization Games Google Mobile 48

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2020

Local screen-printing workshops offered affordable flyers and posters. In 1977 — at the height of punk’s influence on British culture — Brody began studying graphics at The London College of Printing, where he soon found the environment frustrating and out of step with what was happening around them. — Neville Brody.

Design 101

Design Media Testing Entertainment 101

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Print formatted string. Print formatted time. Builtin variables include: Variable Description. pid process ID. comm Process or command name. nsecs Current time in nanoseconds. kstack Kernel stack trace. ustack User-level stack trace. argN Function arguments. args Tracepoint arguments. retval Function return value. name Full probe name.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

I read all the books about influential art directors I could find and started collecting magazines from the places I visited around the world. I wondered why many web designers think that print design is old-fashioned and irrelevant to their work. Reading Avaunt reminded me of a technique I came across years ago but hadn’t tried.

Design 104

Design Media Energy Innovation 104

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2019

nm : future smallest grains on a magnetic disk; 11,000 : free books from 1923; Quotable Quotes: @mekkaokereke : He joined SpaceX as a "founding employee." nm : future smallest grains on a magnetic disk; 11,000 : free books from 1923; Quotable Quotes: @mekkaokereke : He joined SpaceX as a "founding employee." Need cloud?

Internet 33

Internet Internet Scalability Open Source 33

High Scalability

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? Then please recommend my well reviewed book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (30 reviews!). It's HighScalability time: Sometimes old school is best. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it.

Internet 27

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 27

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 26, 2021

I spend many hours documenting advanced debugging stories for books, talks, and blog posts, but many things I never have time to share. bpftrace tool from my BPF book traces the signal:signal_generate tracepoint, which should catch every type of generated signal, including tgkill(2). A quick internet search revealed nothing.

Storage 40

Storage C++ Processing Database 40

Smashing Magazine

MAY 22, 2020

In his five years as an art director at the aerospace and defence company, Nitsche developed an information design system which resulted in annual reports, posters, technical data, and Dynamic America, a 420-page book tracing the company’s history. 1 & 2: General Dynamics design by Erik Nitsche. Large preview ). Old Style Type.

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Design Media Development Energy 91

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The time when readers everywhere post their “best books of whatever-year” and “my favorite books of the year” lists making my pile of books to read grow rapidly. Life is too short to spend reading books that aren’t interesting. Wodehouse 3 ⁄ 5 I was torn on how to rate this book.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2019

I started a magazine collection, studied books on art direction and graphic design, and discovered art directors, including Alexey Brodovitch, Neville Brody, Bea Feitler, and Tom Wolsey. Single columns have been used by book designers for generations and designs based on them look classical.

Design 79

Design Energy Website Media 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Only one exhibition has been staged about her work and one retrospective book published. “ It’s the most expensive book I’ve bought. After working on album covers, book jackets, magazines, and poster designs, she left Brazil and moved to Manhattan. Feitler said that a book was “50/50 image to text.” Comic Book Art.

Design 76

Design Media Website Speed 76

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Although we don’t yet have the same control over typography on the web as we do in print, new file formats, font delivery services, and web fonts have meant far more typographic flexibility than we had ten years ago. There are two books on Herb Lubalin and his work you should add to your collection. Various designs by Herb Lubalin.

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Design Media C++ Technology 116

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There are few books currently available on Alexey Brodovitch’s work, the most definitive being Kerry William Purcell’s 2011 “ Alexey Brodovitch.”. This book will make a fabulous addition to your design collection. It’s common in print to see design elements which overlap to create the illusion of depth. Large preview ).

Design 79

Design Media Website Energy 79

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

Unsurprisingly, I've heard it has problems on newer kernels, printing output that doesn't make sense. It was later ported to BPF with kprobes, and has now been rewritten and included in commercial observability products. It really needs an overhaul. But please understand what exists first and the maintenance burden you are taking on.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 18, 2014

I shared with you this example because while writing C code, and reading Michael Abrash’s Graphics Programming Black Book , I wondered to myself if hardcore C programmers also would know the equivalent assembly instructions that would be emitted from their higher level C code (before optimizing compilers even existed).

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C++ Programming Code Virtualization 98