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. Back-end servers. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance.

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Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. But, for a long time, you needed to be comfortable with mysqldump or other backup / restore methods to move servers or providers. No proprietary operating system or database required.

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Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 97

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. With the AWS based system, Exatype can do this at a fraction of the cost. What would have taken two weeks on local servers now only takes a few minutes. We have a long history in South Africa. For educators and students, we have AWS Educate.

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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.

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Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work.

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C++ Programming Code Testing 58

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation.

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