Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 1, 2022

photo by Adrian I gave a talk at Monitorama in Portland Oregon in June, which set out the idea that carbon is just another metric to monitor, and that in a few years most of the monitoring and performance tuning tools are going to be reporting and optimizing for carbon alongside latency, throughput, availability and cost.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. of our respondents are hosting PostgreSQL in on-premise private clouds, where only 34.8%

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the 2024 Dynatrace Perform conference in Las Vegas, Michael Winkler, senior principal product management at Dynatrace, ran a technical session exploring just some of the many ways in which Dynatrace helps to automate the processes around development, releases, and operation. Dynatrace® Clouds app.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. Belgian engineer Patrick Debois coined the term “DevOps” in 2009 when he needed a Twitter hashtag for DevOpsDays, an agile systems administrators conference in Europe. Atlassian Jira.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In my keynote at AWS re:Invent today, I announced 13 new features and services (in addition to the 15 we announced yesterday). At AWS, we want to be the Q for developers, giving them the super-powered tools and services with deep features in the Cloud. We launched the following new services and features today to help.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike. Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud. So what makes PostgreSQL so special, and how is it being used today?

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

From May 17 to May 18, 2021, the Open-Source Engineering team at Dynatrace attended the virtual observability conference, o11yfest. The two-day conference offered two tracks: One dedicated to the business value of OpenTelemetry observability, where we got an insight into use cases from Skyscanner, HBE Digital, and Logz.io, to name a few.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

ESG metrics are increasingly important to investors as they evaluate risk; in turn, these metrics are increasingly important to organizations because they measure and disclose their performance. Some interesting facts: Moving a workload to the cloud can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 96%. Balancing act or tipping point?

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Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 179

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

Performance 52

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. Amazon Aurora has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS and frequently is the target of migration from on-premise proprietary databases.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 17, 2013

AWS re:Invent 2013. The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers. Comments ().

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 14, 2022

I joined Netflix in 2014, a company at the forefront of cloud computing with an attractive [work culture]. 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. How would I do my job? Thank you.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Hardware Storage 52

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

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Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services. Best contribution to performance improvements.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 17, 2022

My talks on Failing Over Without Falling Over are still very relevant, but AWS did finally release a key new service that implements key parts of the architecture: AWS Route 53 Application Recovery Controller. For example AWS launched an instance type with 800 Gbits/s of network bandwith in 2021.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. While my move is among the first from the Linux cloud teams, Netflix has had staff in Australia for years (for content, marketing, and the FreeBSD OCA). That doesn't happen.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2019

Because we analyzed the results of our Autonomous Cloud Survey and sat down with a handful of these companies that provided answers to questions such as: What’s your Commit Cycle Time? You can read my blog supporting my session titled “ Performance as Code: Lets make it a Standard ” on the Neotys PAC blog. Dynatrace news.

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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. I could help not only Netflix but all customers of the cloud. How would I do my job? Thank you.

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The Symphonia

MARCH 14, 2018

AWS announced a new service?—?the The general goal of SAR is to make it easier to distribute, and consume, applications that have been developed using AWS Serverless products, like Lambda. SAM itself is built on top of AWS CloudFormation ?—?Amazon’s the Serverless Application Repository (SAR)?—?at at re:Invent 2017.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 20, 2023

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing  — it’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. I had a version of this published as a story at InsideHPC on December 1st. In early January a related paper was published by Satoshi Matsuoka et.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

We’ll get to all of those later on, but first I’m going to start the news this time with a roundup of an interesting day last week… News from the Serverless World Keynote Stage at Velocity 2018 Last week I was at O’Reilly’s Velocity conference in San Jose. Great stuff! I wholeheartedly agree. makers of Fission ?—?the

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you time time?

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 7, 2018

So another AWS re:Invent has come and gone and . We spent most of our time chatting to various folk about what they are doing with AWS now, and where they hope to proceed in 2019. AWS, for many organizations, is becoming the core, trusted, platform of how they work. To receive the email version please subscribe here.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense.

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Brendan Gregg

MAY 28, 2021

I've moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Sydney, Australia, where I will continue the best job so far of my career: Performance engineering at Netflix. While my move is among the first from the Linux cloud teams, Netflix has had staff in Australia for years (for content, marketing, and the FreeBSD OCA). That doesn't happen.

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The Symphonia

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The light show at the re:Play party Another re:Invent has come and gone, and us mere AWS-using mortals are now rapidly trying to sort the wheat from the chaff of a heady harvest of announcements. It’s funny to think that AWS Lambda was announced at re:Invent only 3 years ago?—?the Cloud9 is, at its most simple, a cloud hosted IDE.

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VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Earlier this month I spent a week at the OpenStack conference. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense. But once you realize that there are, in fact, several OpenStack conferences happening at the same time and place, it makes more sense.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I gave a talk about container performance recently at DockerCon, and included a quick summary of how they work: YouTube , SlideShare : If you search of slideshare and youtube, you'll find many other good talks on containers as well. People rarely create them manually. Oracle VM Server is based on Xen.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It would take 5–10 minutes after the problem occurred to appear as a problem, then people have to notice and respond to emails or pager text messages, dial into a conference call, and log in to monitoring dashboards before any human response can start. This is why most AWS regions have three availability zones.

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