Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. He was kind enough to give me a quick demo anyway. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

There's an arms race to add eBPF (BPF) to commercial observability products, and in this post I'll describe how to quickly do that. People like to show me their BPF observability products after they have prototyped or built them, but I often wish I had given them advice before they started. You might not even like BPF.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

There's an arms race to add [eBPF] (BPF) to commercial observability products, and in this post I'll describe how to quickly do that. People like to show me their BPF observability products after they have prototyped or built them, but I often wish I had given them advice before they started. You might not even like BPF.

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. For that to work, there needed to be a PCP interface for BPF.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

What follows are topics that may be of interest to anyone looking to migrate their systems and skillset: scan these to find topics that interest you. ## ZFS ZFS is available for Linux via the [zfsonlinux] and [OpenZFS] projects, and more recently was included in Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS (April 2016).

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