Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). These partial stacks get grouped together on the left. Click here for a longer explanation. Yes, times have indeed changed.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I don't think he even said thank you.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I don't think he even said thank you.

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Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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