Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Titus, the Netflix container management platform, is now open source,” [link] Apr 2018 - [Cutress 19] Dr. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Jul - 13 Hints for Computer Systems Design Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. Saltzer, D. Reed, and D.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The zone interface… manages the disk as a sequence of 256 MiB regions that must be written sequentially, encouraging a log-structured, copy-on-write design. This design is in direct opposition to the in-place overwrite design followed by most mature file systems. The first implementation (c. Taking it to the next level.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

SSRS 2008 brought that component into the reporting service module. The ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases are SQL Server databases and should be part of a regular backup process, just like other user databases. In the early days of SSRS, a requirement was to also install and configure Internet Information Services (IIS).

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. Efficient data processing and indexing, making it optimal for executing queries and handling large datasets.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 26, 2017

Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2008 (and is also available for Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Parallel Data Warehouse) with the purpose of encrypting your data at rest. The process to enable this for a database is described in our documentation.

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