Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. I tried to expand on the "stuff" a bit by saying that I’d written the DTraceToolkit, but he wasn't impressed.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. The Sun Microsystems Australia jobs, for example, were all in support and none in development, and other tech giants had not yet arrived.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. We already have 55 Availability Zones across 19 infrastructure regions that customers can use today. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture.

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