Brendan Gregg

MARCH 8, 2020

Systems performance is an effective discipline for performance analysis and tuning, and can help you find performance wins for your applications and the kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this topic. To serve this need I summarized Linux systems performance in 40 minutes at USENIX LISA 2019, touring six important areas: observability tools, methodologies, benchmarking, profiling, tracing, and tuning.

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Systems Performance Benchmarking Tuning 144

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage , Vuppalapati, NSDI’20. This paper describes the design decisions behind the Snowflake cloud-based data warehouse. As the saying goes, ‘all snowflakes are special’ – but what is it exactly that’s special about this one? When I think about cloud-native architectures, I think about disaggregation (enabling each resource type to scale independently), fine-grained units of resource allocation (enabling rapid resp

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

Tasktop

MARCH 8, 2020

Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the great achievements of women across the globe, and a reminder for us to continue to work towards gender equality. This year’s theme is #EachforEqual, a call to action for creating a more equal world for all. At Tasktop, we value and recognize the importance of equality, and that solving difficult problems in society and tech requires different points of view and perspectives.

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Education Innovation Engineering Strategy 81