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.). We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. These partial stacks get grouped together on the left.

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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. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

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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. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

Open Source 40

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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AWS Cloud Education Programming 167

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Blog aware.

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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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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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