Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up.

Open Source 144

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. For example, one of ScaleOut Software’s customers recently upgraded from just using distributed caching to scale its ecommerce application.

Ecommerce 52

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. For example, one of ScaleOut Software’s customers recently upgraded from just using distributed caching to scale its ecommerce application.

Ecommerce 52

Ecommerce Cache Scalability IoT 52

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

Compare that to the relatively robust period of 2005 , when real interest rate curves were positive. Demand is outstripping supply, and that’s driving up the prices of what is available. That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation.

Hardware 52

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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.

Java 145

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

Servers 40

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40