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. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 4, 2020

When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. “I visited him recently,” Danny wrote, “and we got into a conversation about self-organizing systems. I can’t resist adding to the outpouring of appreciation and love that has ensued.

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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. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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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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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. More after jump!

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. All Things Distributed. Comments (). As Amazonâ??s

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