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 worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments.

Open Source 144

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 144

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 worked for most TCP traffic types but not others, which I warned about in the script comments.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Behind the scenes, Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for a table over a sufficient number of servers to meet the request capacity specified by the customer.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167