Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This framework resembles the approach suggested in [JK98].

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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