Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Virtualized in Software**: While this can support an unmodified guest OS, many operations are emulated and slow. It's using software and coordination between the hypervisor and guest to improve performance. Xen AWS 2017 In 2015, AWS launched c4, which used hardware virtualization for EBS volumes. 0% performance overhead.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

According to App Annie , in 2019, consumers averaged 3 hours and 40 minutes per day on mobile (up 35% from 2017), highlighting the fact that companies from all industries stand to benefit from putting mobile at the center of their digital transformation strategy.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

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O'Reilly Software

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Martin had data comparing gcc to llvm from Q4 2015, but I wanted to see what the data looked like now in Q3 2017 and wanted to share my findings; simply rerunning the numbers. The graphs and analysis had interesting takeaways like showing the obvious split in blink and webkit, and relative number of contributors of the projects.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Autonomous Cloud is what enables our globally distributed development teams at Dynatrace to deliver better software faster following our NoOps approach: Fully Autonomous and as a Self-Service! We first brought our DevOps story to life at Perform 2017 when our CTO & Founder Bernd Greifeneder, DevOps Lead Anita Engleder and I went on stage.

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Professor Beekums

DECEMBER 11, 2016

UPDATE 2017-01-01: This post has a follow up. Most engineering organizations will have to answer the question: “What makes a software developer a senior developer?” This is a challenging question because it is extremely subjective. Search for the answer on the internet and you will get many different answers.

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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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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Incorporating cloud application security practices is an effective way for organizations to avoid application security risks, ensure a smoothly running software development lifecycle (SDLC), and establish an overall strong security posture. However, open source software is often a vector for security vulnerabilities.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team. Before joining Netflix, she worked in the advertising and e-commerce industries as a backend software engineer. Pallavi received her master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. There are workarounds: I can use the perf_events cgroup ID, provided the container software is configuring it (they do). There have been security vulnerabilities, just like there are with any software. People rarely create them manually.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 2, 2023

Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer Kelsey Hightower hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology. In the IT world, there are constantly new concepts, terms, and technologies to learn.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A major contributor to this increased level of security are the SDLC controls that we’ve implemented since our dedicated product team of certified security professionals was established in May 2017. For software this complex, the report is clearly an indication of an excellent result.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

There are a number of ways that file could go missing: perhaps the third-party provider is suffering an outage; maybe the user has a third-party content blocker that strips out A/B testing software; what if the JavaScript is malformed and fails to execute? Airplanes and Ashtrays (October 2017). 5Mb up, 1Mb down, 28ms RTT. ↩

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Tasktop

AUGUST 23, 2021

The results of these gains in the past decade are obvious: software is more reliable, more functional, and more adaptable than ever before. Despite this, federal agencies have an overwhelming tendency to disregard user feedback in their software development. Would quality software help alleviate their burdens? Time To Change.

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. Furthermore, because Kotlin is a JVM software, it can use a library of Java libraries, making it safer for Android app development. In October 2017, Android 3.0 Conclusion.

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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.,

Performance 52

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X

Performance 52

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Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Oracle Enterprise Edition. Single Database Edition Costs. $0.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

years old when Marc Andreessen announced that Software is Eating the World. And some of those coops and interns are now full-time employees, helping us make a difference in a world where software is the basis for competitive differentiation. . In the following years: Tasktop was 4.5 And what a book Mik authored.

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The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“I was told to buy a software or lose my computer. population were affected over the one year period between June 2016 to June 2017 under the conservative and inclusive regimes, respectively. I ignored it”: a study of ransomware Simoiu et al., SOUPS 2019. We similarly estimate that between 2% and 3% of the U.S.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. What is PostgreSQL used for? It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 31, 0001

2020 Apr 6 Off by Two 2019 May 12 f() vs f(void) in C vs C++ 2019 Jan 18 Finding Compiler Bugs With C-Reduce 2018 Oct 24 Booting a Custom Linux Kernel in QEMU and Debugging It With GDB 2018 Jun 2 Speeding Up Linux Kernel Builds With ccache 2017 Sep 5 GCC vs LLVM Q3 2017 Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts 2017 May 31 Running Clang-Tidy (..)

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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. from Project to Product (based on Perez 2017 ) . Unfortunately, many more will not.

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O'Reilly Software

DECEMBER 31, 0001

2019 Compiling the Linux Kernel with LLVM Tools FOSDEM ‘19’ - Brussels, Belgium - February 2-3 slides - video 2018 Compiling the Linux Kernel with Clang Linux Plumbers Conference 2018 - Vancouver, Canada - November 13-15 slides - video 2017 Compiling Android Userspace and Linux Kernel with LLVM 2017 US LLVM Developers’ Meeting - San (..)

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time. Theory (A) is most likely based on the frame widths in the flame graph. But I'm not completely sure.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

SQL Server 2017 leverages up to 4 log writer workers, on hidden schedulers, to assist in transaction log processing activities. Caution: Pre-release software may change before final release.). You may find the number of log write workers has been increased to 8 when running newer releases of SQL Server to accommodate larger systems.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Since then, AWS has added another PoP in Palermo in 2017. This includes: Enterprises such as Decysion, Docebo, Eataly, Edizioni Conde Nast, ENEL, Ferrero, GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, Imperia & Monferrina, Lamborghini, Mediaset, Navionics, Pirelli, Pixartprinting, SEAT Pagine Gialle, Tagetik Software, and Vodafone Italy.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 26, 2018

They unveiled their first two embedded AI chips fabricated with TSMC 40nm process in December 2017: “Journey 1.0 They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Current limitation: Engaging in a distributed transaction with SQL Server 2017 on Linux. SQL Server 2017 on Linux does not have distributed transaction support. However, SQL Server 2017 on Windows provides distributed transaction support allowing interactions with SQL Server 2019 on Linux. Try out this example.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability is a cornerstone of any database system and starting with SQL Server 2017 on Linux Cumulative Update 6 (CU6), SQL Server on Linux enables “Forced Flush” behavior as described in this article , improving durability on non-Fua optimized systems. “Be The trace flag does not apply to SQL Server on Linux SQL 2017 RTM thru CU5.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

In fact, the opposite is true, thanks to an active and vibrant global community of developers who work continuously to improve open source software. With open source database software, anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Delta Air Lines experienced a severe system outage in 2017, resulting in flight cancellations and delays across their network. Whether it's an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, downtime can result in lost sales, dissatisfied consumers, and financial losses.As

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2017 uses function address comparisons which the enablement of COMDAT would break. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. . SQL Server 2019. OPTIONAL HEADER VALUES. 20B magic # (PE32+). linker version.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here is an example using the SQL Server SSMS 2017 against my SQL 2016 server. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. The templates capture common events and leverage XEvent enhanced view capabilities to display the event data.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria.

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