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).

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

1072-aws (xxx) 12/18/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 5.03 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.81 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.86 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.95 avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 14.54

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Loosely defined, observability is the ability to understand what’s happening inside a system from the knowledge of the external data it produces, which are usually logs, metrics, and traces. Logs are important because you’ll naturally want an event-based record of any notable anomalies across the system. Watch webinar now!

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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.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 29, 2021

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

iOS empowers developers to easily parallelize code using Grand Central Dispatch , Android does this via their new, unified task scheduler WorkManager and game engines like Unity have job systems. On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. The Main Thread Is Overworked And Underpaid ,” Surma, Chrome Dev Summit 2019 (Video). Web Workers.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. An important concept was to simulate database users called Virtual Users in parallel (rather than concurrently) to accurately simulate a real database workload with multiple users running from separate systems. Cached vs Scaled Workloads.

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