O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

Social Media 108

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. You can't make this stuff up. tools (2006).

Open Source 144

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

Java 145

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

Ecommerce 52

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

Going back to the mid-1990s, online systems have seen relentless, explosive growth in usage, driven by ecommerce, mobile applications, and more recently, IoT. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

Ecommerce 52

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". However, some seem to have missed Davidson's point regarding the importance of resources and rely almost entirely on waits to present a picture of query performance and system health.

Tuning 115

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