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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

offer letter logo (2014). flame graphs (2014). eBPF tools (2014-2019). I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. PMC analysis (2017).

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Netflix End of Series 1

Brendan Gregg

offer letter logo (2014) flame graphs (2014) eBPF tools (2014-2019) PMC analysis (2017) my pandemic-abandoned desk (2020); office wall I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive work culture. It was the most challenging job among those I interviewed for.

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Analyzing a High Rate of Paging

Brendan Gregg

Reads usually have apps waiting on them; writes may not (write-back caching). C Process Name = java Kbytes : count distribution 0 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 0 | | 8 -> 15 : 31 | | 16 -> 31 : 15 | | 32 -> 63 : 15 | | 64 -> 127 : 15 | | 128 -> 255 : 1682 | *|. Counting cache functions. This is "cache busting."

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. You're just saving a pushl, movl, an series of operations that (for obvious reasons) is highly optimized on x86.

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Hello from Europe!

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Analyzing a High Rate of Paging

Brendan Gregg

Reads usually have apps waiting on them; writes may not (write-back caching). This is a 64-Gbyte memory system, and 48 Gbytes is in the page cache (the file system cache). Along with the numbers from the problem statement, this gives me a theory: Do the 100-Gbyte files bust the page cache, whereas 40-Gbyte files fit?

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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