Edge Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As we enter the New Year, it’s an opportunity to step back and reflect in an increasingly hectic world. In an earlier post , I suggested we need to find time to reflect in a world increasingly dominated by flows – it’s a healthy form of friction that can actually enhance our ability to generate more insight from flows. Embrace the New Year as an invitation to reflect.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2018

At the Linux Plumber's conference there were at least 24 talks on eBPF. It has quickly become not just an invaluable technology, but also an in-demand skill. Perhaps you'd like a new year's resolution: learn eBPF! eBPF should stand for something meaningful, like Virtual Kernel Instruction Set (VKIS), but due to its origins it is extended Berkeley Packet Filter.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The Financial Times recently ran a long article describing the breakdown of governance over the Crossrail development , the first new underground railway in London in over a century. Good governance is usually only appreciable by its absence, but the Crossrail case allows a before / after contrast between the presence of good and, after the sacking of a key board member, the presence of bad.

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I was doing backups and clean-ups and ran across a couple of sample projects for XEvent and event_sequence processing I thought others might find helpful. – Enjoy! The sample code is provided “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are disclaimed.

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