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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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery. Those who master digital business models and software at scale will thrive. Unfortunately, many more will not. But this one is different.

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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

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering. Follow-up.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated. This is not a black swan event.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

One year after a Tock release Intel would take that same microarchitecture (with some minor improvements), and use a shrink of the manufacturing process to create a Tick release. The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Goetz Graefe, ACM Queue 6(4): 40-52 (2008). Sep 7 - Adaptive load sharing in homogeneous distributed systems , D Eager, ED Lazowska and J Zahorjan - IEEE transactions on software engineering, 1986. Aug 24 - The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later: and How Flash Memory Changes the Rules. Lorie, G.F. Putzolu, and I.L. Nijssen ed.,

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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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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In 2008 or so, when data scientist emerged as a job title, it was widely ridiculed as a nonjob: the thought that people who just worked with data could be scientists, or employ the rigors of their time-honored methods, was literally laughable in many circles. the user experience and design) and within the software construction itself.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." This process can be messy and slow, but it never creates a political blockage for developing new capabilities for the web. width="1522" height="886" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Microcomputing was expected to change information processing patterns of businesses, enabling better analysis and decision support at lower levels of the organization.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last few years we’ve talked a lot about how at Dynatrace we have changed our development processes in order to deploy new feature releases with every sprint, as well as providing a fast-lane to production that allows us to deploy important updates to our customers within an hour. Dynatrace news. I have a new idea.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The storage backend is the software module directly managing the storage device attached to physical machines. In 2008, with the emergence of Btrfs, a new implementation was built taking advantage of Btrfs’ transactions, deduplication, checksums, and compression. RADOS has been through a number of iterations in the preceding decade+.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Thus, one of the two typeface x-height’s will seem to be larger in size, although it may be the same point size in the software. Are Typefaces Tools, Software, Objects, Products Or What? It is unlikely that they will be the same, as x-heights differ greatly. This is a question that is not easily answered.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! That was 2008. As with anything, the more you learn the quicker the process will go. One of the ones that stands out is Nate Koechley’s “Professional Frontend Engineering” presentation ( transcript and video ).

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rewarding people for hitting financial targets created trading for trading's sake and runaway bonuses, culminating in an "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" culture that intensified the 2008 financial crisis. What most enterprises desperately need is learning and growth, not more software endpoints on the fringe of an impenetrable legacy hairball.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). On Linux, containers are a combination of namespaces (restricting what a process sees) and cgroups (similar to Solaris resource controls).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

This camp values practices such as test driven design, continuous integration, co-located and cross-functional teams, short development iterations, and frequent releases of software. Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies. 1 Brinsley, John.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 12, 2011

automakers and appliance makers are all in the software business now). A lot of relationships became genuine partnerships in 2008 as firms found creative ways to sustain contracts and projects in what were difficult times for everybody. Excess liquidity fueling a lot of tech companies will create a lot of tech jobs.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specialized data mining applications like supply chain optimization and fraud detection are out of scope, as well as the implementation details of the data mining process (such as evaluation of model quality). Outputs of this tier can be used to configure downstream processes. and the supporting data mining processes.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In much the same way as air traffic controllers are taught how to land planes in the event the software fails on them at a critical moment, former knowledge workers can help re-build our knowledge from the ground up. Tool 3: Buy Before you Try If you're on your way to becoming a zombie company , why not eat someone else's brain?

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. And if I switch tabs to view a paper from 2008, then a song from 2008 could start up. and chrono-node.

Programming 98

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Using SQL Server’s SNITrace to Troubleshoot Networking Issues In the process of tracking down a few TCP 10054 issues (highlighted here: ​​ [link] ) I ​​ also ​​ used ​​ the ​​ SNITrace ​​ (SNI Trace) ​​ capabilities. 9501 x.x.x.100

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0 released 2002 ( Large preview ). Templates.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. The plan is treated as a certainty. It then becomes something to be optimized through execution.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

A brief history of IPC at Netflix Netflix was early to the cloud, particularly for large-scale companies: we began the migration in 2008, and by 2010, Netflix streaming was fully run on AWS. For Inter-Process Communication (IPC) between services, we needed the rich feature set that a mid-tier load balancer typically provides.

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