Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). For a while I was promoting the use of Canonical's libc6-prof, which was libc6 with frame pointers.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Static analysis of Java enterprise applications: frameworks and caches, the elephants in the room , Antoniadis et al., Being static , it has the advantage that analysis results can be produced solely from source code without the need to execute the program. PLDI’20. Why is static analysis of enterprise apps so hard?

Java 80

Java Cache Benchmarking Programming 80

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? There's no Java stack—there should be a tower of green Java methods—instead there's only a single green frame or two.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40