Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it. As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface? Reasons To Measure The Performance Of Typefaces? Measuring Typefaces And The Resulting Performance Data. Thomas Bohm.

Performance 110

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 110

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

Not because MySQL wasn’t performant but because the out-of-the-box defaults weren’t adequate for heavy traffic. Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. Then you might need to delve into MySQL tuning and replicas. Not so much.

Open Source 92

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 92

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF was created by Alexei Starovoitov while at PLUMgrid (he's now at Facebook) as a generic in-kernel virtual machine, with software defined networks as the primary use case. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130