Dynatrace

MARCH 23, 2020

A decade ago, while working for a large hosting provider, I led a team that was thrown into turmoil over the purchasing of server and storage hardware in preparation for a multi-million dollar super-bowl ad campaign. High fidelity data, zero developer involvement. Dynatrace news. Customers were impressed at how fast it deployed.

Google 195

Google Engineering Metrics Hardware 195

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In our conversations with developers and engineers during the conference, we confirmed the CNCF GItOps Microsurvey data – 91% are already using GitOps. They also remove toil and allow engineers to focus on application development vs platform engineering work.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

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

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. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. Or even on a plane.

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The results gave us insight into what our subscribers are paid, where they’re located, what industries they work for, what their concerns are, and what sorts of career development opportunities they’re pursuing. Average salaries in these industries ranged from $171,000 (for computer hardware) to $164,000 (for software).

Azure 145

Azure Social Media Programming AWS 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

Eric asked me to give one of the keynotes at the end of the first day, and invited local Denver people to join the conference for an AI focused meetup that included the final three keynotes, the drinks and snacks reception and some additional talks in the evening.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

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. Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 6, 2011

In a couple of months, I’ll be giving a keynote at the AMD Fusion Developer’s Summit , which will be held on June 13-16, 2011, in Bellevue, WA, USA. Here’s my talk’s description as it appears on the conference website: AFDS Keynote: “Heterogeneous Parallelism at Microsoft”.

Development 40

Development Hardware C++ Games 40

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

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. What about security?

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

People have a myriad of biases that influence how we think about problems and he developed models to quantify the impact of behavior on economic theories. Hardware engineers design and implement solutions in RTL, while software engineers attempt to solve the problem either at the OS or application level. Theory Induced Blindness.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

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. Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 40

O'Reilly

JANUARY 13, 2020

” Carol Willing , a member of the Python Steering Council and a core developer of CPython, also celebrates these projects—like the Binder service, which promotes reproducible research by creating an executable environment from your Jupyter Notebooks—particularly as they expand beyond their initial aims. .” ” Java.

Programming 128

Programming Java Google C++ 128

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There were so many interesting papers at the conference this year though that I haven’t been able to cover nearly as many as I would like. AliGraph covers Alibaba’s distributed graph engine supporting the development of new GNN applications. Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ?

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. People working remotely are for the most part working unsupervised (well, except for those on endless streams of conference calls).

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

It was created by Alastair Robertson, a talented UK-based developer who has previously won various coding competitions. hardware Hardware counter-based instrumentation. watchpoint Memory watchpoint events (in development). On, say, the network engineering team, they have been using BCC to develop an agent for their needs.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

” Distracted in a conference grand ballroom, above what might be the largest mall in the world or at least Bangkok, a blank QEMU session has me seriously questioning my life choices. 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.

C++ 67

C++ Hardware Code Virtualization 67

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

As web developers, it’s understandable to feel that this is not an issue over which we have any influence, but this isn’t true. For the last three years, the SustainableUX conference has seen experts in web sustainability sharing their knowledge across an array of web-based disciplines. You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure”.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

Mainstream hardware – many kinds of parallelism: What’s the relationship among multi-core CPUs, hardware threads , SIMD vector units (Intel SSE and AVX , ARM Neon ), and GPGPU (general-purpose computation on GPUs, which I covered at C++ and Beyond 2011 )? Asheville is going to be blast. I can’t wait.

C++ 40

C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Switching from Solaris to Linux has become much easier in the last two years, with Linux developments in ZFS, Zones, and DTrace. Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since ZFS is an add-on developed out-of-tree, it will always be harder to get the same level of attention. LTS (April 2016).

Virtualization 76

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 76

John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. cmpl $1000000000, %eax.

Latency 40

Latency Hardware Code Testing 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. 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.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes. 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.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

This part is a bit more technical than the first, though it offloads most of the really deep stuff to outside sources, focusing on explaining why these things matter to the average web developer. As such, tuning congestion logic is usually only done by a select few developers, and evolution is slow. Large preview ).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106