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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Bear in mind that Netflix doesn't even use Fedora!) 2023, 2024: Frame Pointers in Fedora and Ubuntu!

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html How long does it take to read the time?

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How to evaluate modern APM solutions

Dynatrace

Your APM tool should help you establish performance benchmarks, so you can understand what good performance looks like. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. Application performance insights. Before 2015, Dynatrace was listed as Compuware.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

Since its introduction by AWS in 2014, AWS Lambda has revolutionized the compute space and boosted the entire serverless movement. When we set out to create the new Lambda extension, we benchmarked other dedicated Lambda monitoring solutions that were already on the market. Dynatrace news. How Dynatrace compares to other solutions.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. How long does it take to read the time? How would you time time? Running this on the two systems saw similar results.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

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. html [unroll the loop]: /blog/2014-04-26/the-noploop-cpu-benchmark.html [unused]: [link] [unused2]: [link] include <sys/time.h>

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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. SQL Server Impact.

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