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Sutter's Mill
MARCH 11, 2024
To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently. issues with C++.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! How long does it take to read the time?
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Percona
JUNE 4, 2023
In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). 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.
Brendan Gregg
JULY 2, 2021
The architecture is: While the bpftrace binary is installed on all the target systems, the bpftrace tools (text files) live on a web server and are pushed out when needed. Then, having discovered everything is C or Python, some rewrite it all in a different language. That will be a quick and useful version 1. BPF up and running!
The Netflix TechBlog
APRIL 17, 2019
Netflix headquarters circa 2014. AOM has produced the reference software for AV1, which is called libaom and is available online. SVT-AV1 uses parallelization at several stages of the encoding process, which allows it to adapt to the number of available cores including newest servers with significant core count.
SQL Performance
OCTOBER 29, 2019
There are multiple methods to look at poorly performing queries in SQL Server, notably Query Store, Extended Events, and dynamic management views (DMVs). DMV data is always available, so very often it's the easiest method to get a quick first look at query performance. CustomerID , c. Customers c JOIN Sales. GROUP BY c.
SQL Performance
JULY 1, 2019
The results are technically non-deterministic since SQL Server could validly return any one of the rows in each group. Nevertheless, if you run this query yourself, you are quite likely to see the same result I do: The execution plan depends on the version of SQL Server used, and does not depend on database compatibility level.
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