Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

eBPF tools (2014-2019). On the Netflix Java/Linux/EC2 stack there were no working mixed-mode flame graphs, no production safe dynamic tracer, and no PMCs: All tools I used extensively for advanced performance analysis. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture. flame graphs (2014).

Java 145

Java Cloud Cache AWS 145

Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

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. Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I'll miss my colleagues and the culture.

Java 52

Java Cache Cloud AWS 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

The TPC designed benchmarks for transaction processing (OLTP) and analytics (OLAP) and anyone can run these benchmarks, have them audited by the TPC and published on the official benchmark rankings. When testing database performance there are 2 distinct workloads, transactional or OLTP and analytic (data warehouse, decision support) or OLAP.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

Anonymous analytics data from multiple website sample shows the rate of abandonment can increase by 53% after a website load time reach 3 seconds threshold point. John Mueller answered “YES” to this question in 2019, “site speed is definitely a ranking factor?”. Factors that impact on FID: Render blocking java scripts.

Cache 78

Cache Speed Google Website 78

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Apache MADLib project is still going strong, and the recent (July 2019) 1.16 A pipeline breaker occurs when the output of one operator must be materialized to disk or transferred over the network, as opposed to being directly communicated from operator to operator via CPU cache, or, in the worst case, via RAM. VLDB’19.

Network 44

Network Database Programming Hardware 44