Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The private bpftrace repository has just been made public, which is big news for DTrace fans. Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is in the Linux kernel and is the new hotness in systems engineering.

C++ 110

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

The Polyglot Developer

OCTOBER 8, 2018

If you’re like me, you thought you’d try to build a cross-platform desktop application using the very popular Electron framework as well as the very popular Vue.js JavaScript framework. At first glance it might seem as easy as defining an Electron configuration, but in reality, a little more needs to be done when using Webpack to build the project.

Development 59

Development 59

HammerDB

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This post gives a HOWTO guide on system configuration for achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB PostgreSQL TPC-C test. As an Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) the examples are taken from a PostgreSQL on Linux on Intel system, the approach is the same for whatever system you are testing although some of the settings you see may be different.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance Hardware 40