Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are on [slideshare] or as a [PDF]: I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 140

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 140

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Software as a Service’ (SaaS) basically are centrally managed systems with multiple tenants/instances. The answer to this challenge is service virtualization, which allows simulating real services during testing without actual access. System’s configuration is not given anymore and often can’t be easily mapped to hardware.

Performance Testing 100

Performance Testing Architecture Testing Performance 100

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

using Compute Express Link or CXL), organizing memory components for optimal performance, adapting system software traditionally designed for homogeneous memory systems, and developing memory abstractions and programming constructs for HCM management. About CXL hardware availability with academia. Using emulation (e.g.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases. Another area that has been showing huge potential is eye-tracking in the context of virtual reality. Source: Nielsen Norman Group ) ( Large preview ).

Mobile 111

Mobile Website Hardware Social Media 111

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. Despite all its upside, PostgreSQL software presents such challenges. HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

Availability 85

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

## References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: - [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] Jul 2008 - [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] 2010 - [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

In order to overcome these issues, the concept of paging and segmentation was introduced, where physical address space and virtual address space were designed. Here, virtual(logical) to physical address translation is much easier as segment tables store adequate information. Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Programming 85

Programming C++ Database Virtualization 85

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The core idea is to continuously monitor all aspects of the business, actively interpret the observations using advanced data analysis – including ML – and integrate the learnings into appropriate actions that improve business outcomes. The key insight this led to is that ML models are software , derived from data.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Mobiles have different models, screen resolutions, operating systems, network types, hardware configurations, etc. Also, how to test the hardware of the mobile phone itself, is it supporting all the software as it should? Let us have a look at the most popular types of mobile testing for applications and hardware.

Mobile 82

Mobile Testing Hardware C++ 82

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The data shows a scripted automated workload running a number of back to back tests each time with an increasing number of virtual users. Database information and performance schemas The best approach for database performance analysis is to take a top-down approach. The other ports shows the HammerDB Virtual Users.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance. The video is on [youtube]: The slides are [here] or as a [PDF]: first prev next last / permalink/zoom I work on many areas of performance, but recently I've had a lot of demand to talk about BPF.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

References I've reproduced the references from my SREcon22 keynote below, so you can click on links: [Gregg 08] Brendan Gregg, “ZFS L2ARC,” [link] , Jul 2008 [Gregg 10] Brendan Gregg, “Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More),” [link] , 2010 [Greenberg 11] Marc Greenberg, “DDR4: Double the speed, double the latency?

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This was a weird problem to think about: Time itself had now become a resource and target of performance analysis. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. bpftrace is suited for this kind of analysis: decomposing metrics into distributions or per-event logs, and creating new metrics for visibility into blind spots. software Kernel software-based events.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In the simplest case, you have a growing workload, and you optimize it to run more efficiently so that you don’t need to buy or rent additional hardware, so your carbon footprint stays the same, but the carbon per transaction or operation is going down.

Energy 52

Energy Cloud Traffic Transportation 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Our audience is particularly strong in the software (20% of respondents), computer hardware (4%), and computer security (2%) industries—over 25% of the total. As Figure 3 shows, the percentage of men and women respondents who saw no change was virtually identical (18%). 113 (4%) identified as “other,” and 14 (0.5%) used “they.”.

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). Success with containers.

Database 135

Database Architecture Education Systems 135

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

Artificial Intelligence 79

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Logistics AWS 79

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. is access to hardware devices. This allows customisation and use of specialised features without custom, proprietary software for niche hardware. Web Serial.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Dotcom-Montior

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You cannot virtualize everything…yet. Software services still require physical devices and hardware for them to function. Root-cause analysis and source of the incident. Change management is the process of determining how changes will affect the service deployment and/or consider the effects on the business itself.

Social Media 90

Social Media Monitoring Latency DevOps 90

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

halt (); Some sort of very early exception handler; better to sit busy in an infinite loop than run off and destroy hardware or corrupt data, I suppose. Jann Horn gets back to me first: Can you use QEMU to look at the hardware frame (which contains values pushed by the hardware in response to the page fault) in early_idt_handler_common?

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). They use third-party software like Docker or Kubernetes to simplify their administration. People rarely create them manually.

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Dynatrace, we follow a combination of agent and agent-less approach where the “secret sauce” lies in our Dynatrace OneAgent (watch my Performance Clinic YouTube tutorial with our Chief Software Architect Helmut Spiegl ). It covers these key areas: Technology & Dependency Analysis. Resource consumption & traffic analysis.

Cloud 31

Cloud Traffic Database Network 31

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. Data analysis showed a similar pattern: 70% total; 32% using AI, 38% experimenting with it.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

I generated this using my offcputime tool from [bcc] (this tool needs eBPF features from Linux 4.8+), and my [flame graph] software: #./bcc/tools/offcputime.py rc5-virtual (bgregg-xenial-bpf-i-0b7296777a2585be1) 08/01/2017 _x86_64_ (8 CPU) 10:15:51 PM UID PID %usr %system %guest %CPU CPU Command 10:16:51 PM 0 18468 2.85 termc$ uptime.

Latency 111

Latency Metrics C++ Systems 111

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Treo provides competitive analysis based on real-world data. On the other hand, we have hardware constraints on memory and CPU due to JavaScript parsing and execution times (we’ll talk about them in detail later). Large preview ). New metrics landed in Lighthouse v6 in early 2020. Large preview ). Choose the right metrics.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145