Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

It was also a virtual machine that lacked low-level hardware profiling capabilities, so I wasn't able to do cycle analysis to confirm that the 10% was entirely frame pointer-based. The overhead to walk DWARF is also too high, as it was designed for non-realtime use. The actual overhead depends on your workload.

Java 145

Java Cache Google Hardware 145

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

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. The starting point is a set of three asumptions for an NVM-based programming model: Compared to traditional persistent media, NVM is fast.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace uses BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set. The probe specifies what events to instrument, the filter is optional and can filter down the events based on a boolean expression, and the action is the mini program that runs. There's no filter. BEGIN Start of bpftrace.

Latency 68

Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

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

ACM Sigarch

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In industry, generally due to time-to-market restrictions, we tend to think extremely short term with evolutionary design changes rather than riskier revolutionary ideas that have a longer timeline for returns. Virtualization, for instance, was being addressed by IBM in the 1960s. However, a similar near term bias exists in academia.

Architecture 47

Architecture Cache Hardware Virtualization 47

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Now in development in WebKit after years of radio silence, WebXR APIs provide Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality input and scene information to web applications. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It’s because the shell is really powerful: it allows you to run many small programs which work very well together. Designing and implementing these graphical interfaces takes a lot more work. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web.

Development 98

Development Energy Programming Efficiency 98

Randon ASCII

AUGUST 16, 2018

When a Windows program stops pumping messages there will be ETW events emitted to indicate exactly where this happened , so those types of hangs are trivial to find. Normally running every 6 ms is enough to make a program responsive, but for some reason it wasn’t making any progress. But apparently Chrome kept on pumping messages.

Programming 75

Programming Virtualization Code Processing 75

Randon ASCII

APRIL 14, 2020

I tried to tap the control key (virtual key code 162) once a second until the password input field appeared. Some of it is programs (including som internal Google tools) that have registered in Task Scheduler to run “On workstation lock of any user” – who knew? Ultimately there are a lot of programs spinning very hard.

Programming 89

Programming Processing Systems Hardware 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Mirroring can be implemented at a software or hardware level.

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ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) was the focus of the QZFS paper which used this new hardware device to speed up file system compression.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

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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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

desktop machine (I won’t tell you the hardware details. Launching this program brings you to the new Basic Installer Screen. This option is not necessarily designed to save the setup files for use for subsequent basic installer setup. Go install it”. So I proceeded to install SQL Server 4.20 on my Windows NT 3.1

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Servers Media Engineering Virtualization 40