Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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Tech News Gather

JULY 16, 2022

Because it utilizes multi-factor authentication, multi-layered hardware, and software encryption, the application offers its users a high degree of protection. The unlocked version of the programs may be downloaded from the Google Play store. This software is the most appealing option among those focused on finances.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

Originally posted at https:/opensource.com/article/19/8/introduction-bpftrace. bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. The probe is BEGIN , a special probe that runs at the beginning of the program (like awk). There's no filter. name global.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Software development, there was a young developer, your humble servant, discovering Linux for the first time. Note : The tools I advocate in this article work on Linux-based systems. You can use all the other tools described in this article with other Linux distributions, too.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As I was determined to become great at my new occupation regardless of my location, I read every sysadmin book, article, and magazine I could find on the shelf. I didn't end up getting published in SysAdmin directly, but my performance work did make it as a feature article (thanks Matty). Or even on a plane.

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ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The rest of the article presents some examples of this behavior and how it impacts our field, whether we care to admit it or not. It is much more difficult to publish truly risky, revolutionary research due to implicit filters in what gets funded and what makes it past a program committee. Present Bias. Discounting the Past.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This article titled " Wie Unternehmen vom Vormarsch des maschinellen Lernens profitieren können " appeared in German last week in the "Digitaliserung" column of Wirtschaftwoche. For the past 20 years, thousands of software engineers at Amazon have been working on ML. Machine Leaning at Amazon. More room for optimism.

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O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) For years I had an aspirational goal of unifying all of my backups into one central directory tree, akin to the concept of a monorepo in software development. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains).

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And everyone has opinions about how these language models and art generation programs are going to change the nature of work, usher in the singularity, or perhaps even doom the human race. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Many AI adopters are still in the early stages.

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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.

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Tech News Gather

AUGUST 25, 2022

Here in this article, we are going to help you understand the process of identifying a leading flutter development company by covering one critical aspect–The cost of hiring a company. The platform is based on a purpose-oriented programming language that is simple to learn. Hardware Costs. Let’s get started.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In fact, according to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey , JavaScript and Python are now the #1 and #2 most used programming languages, respectively (excluding HTML/CSS and SQL as “programming languages”). There’s some work on hardware proposals for these systems, like Zhu et al.,

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. Fast forward a decade, and both the software and hardware situations have changed dramatically.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances.

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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 Linux may need similar utilities to control various hardware cache installations.

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O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

In the first article of this series, we discussed communal computing devices and the problems they create–or, more precisely, the problems that arise because we don’t really understand what “communal” means. In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at these questions, to see how the problems manifest and how to understand them.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. For more on these various kinds of compute cores and threads, see also my article Welcome to the Jungle.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. 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. This LWN article sums up the Linux’s kernel’s original use case perfectly.

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Testsigma

JUNE 19, 2020

As Agile methodology was introduced, the need for fast and continuous delivery of software applications increased. Later in this article, we will discuss Testsigma which is transforming the complete testing industry. testing and is integratable with multiple programming languages (i.e. Introduction. Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. We’ll see it in banking.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Important When planning, deploying, and maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server installation, ensure that the I/O system supports all the factors outlined in this article. Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 8, 2017

For more on the equation and similar experiments, Dr. Neil Gunther has written an article on load averages: [How It Works], plus there are many Linux source block comments in [loadavg.c]. ## Linux Uninterruptible Tasks When load averages first appeared in Linux, they reflected CPU demand, as with other operating systems. Yes, I'd say so.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

ReadFile WriteFile ReadFileScatter WriteFileGather GetOverlappedResult ​​ For extended details on the 823 error, see ​​ Error message 823 may indicate hardware problems or system problems ​​ ( [link] i crosoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb scid=kb ; en-us;828339 ) on the Microsoft Web site.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 21, 2012

While visiting Facebook earlier this month, I gave a shorter version of my “Welcome to the Jungle” talk, based on the eponymous WttJ article. Now welcome to the hardware jungle. As I answered there, I half agree – it’s true but it’s only half the story, and it doesn’t affect the programming model (see more below).

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. We also use bug bounty programs and engage in whitehat testing companies. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out?

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