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. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

And we believe this is supported by the analyst community as we were recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and scoring highest in four of five use cases in the 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for APM report. Partner Program update – new Ignite tier.

Programming 170

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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. This talk originated from my updates to Systems Performance 2nd Edition , and this was the first time I've given this talk in person!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

This part of the actual SSPL language speaks volumes: If you make the functionality of the Program or a modified version available to third parties as a service, you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License. ” Nothing nefarious there.

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2019

If you hadn’t already heard the news, the entire Dynatrace team is immensely proud to once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM). In a sea of virtualized layers of abstraction, shared services, and dependencies, the cloud has become increasingly complex.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2. Both mobile and web front ends call an Application Program Interface (API) that is managed by an API proxy.

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 1, 2019

eBPF should stand for something meaningful, like Virtual Kernel Instruction Set (VKIS), but due to its origins it is extended Berkeley Packet Filter. It can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, and device drivers. eBPF is part of the Linux kernel. eBPF is part of the Linux kernel.

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Tech News Gather

JUNE 15, 2023

There is a lack ofinnovative apps that allow users to explore virtual exhibits, bringing historical artifacts and artworks to life in stunning detail. This app presents users with virtual ideations of traveling, saving them the cost of actually being present.

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Network Disconnections. Network disconnection is a common automation challenge that a QA team faces wherein they find it hard to access databases, VPN, third party services, APIs, specific testing environments, etc. due to unstable network connections. Fixing Code Smell.

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Testing Mobile Network Analytics 85

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. variable this->name $name.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 110

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2018

eBPF should stand for something meaningful, like Virtual Kernel Instruction Set (VKIS), but due to its origins it is extended Berkeley Packet Filter. It can be used for many things: network performance, firewalls, security, tracing, and device drivers. Beginner ## 1. What is eBPF, bcc, bpftrace, and iovisor?

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C++ Virtualization Programming Code 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The machines are programmed in such a way that they think like humans and can imitate our actions. The primary task machines can perform are learning, reasoning and perception. Also known as Weak AI, the machines are designed to perform a specific set of tasks. The machine uses those programmed scenarios for decision making.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

If a cyber network agent has observed an unusual pattern of failed login attempts, it needs to alert downstream network nodes (servers and routers) to block the kill chain in a potential attack. The list goes on. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. A New Approach: Real-Time Device Tracking.

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IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Testsigma

MAY 5, 2021

To ensure the features run uniformly across various browsers and OS versions that our users have, we should perform multi-browser testing. You can also check out our post on the most common issues one can face while performing browser compatibility tests. Besides, no programming experience is required to test on MultiBrowser.

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Testing Tools Testing Internet Internet 74

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use. Java applications use a similar mechanism.).

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Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Designed to help scalable applications deliver high performance, it stores live, fast-changing data in memory (DRAM) for fast updates and retrieval. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use. Java applications use a similar mechanism.).

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Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. Linux already has many performance tools, but these are often counter-based and have limited visibility. The probe is BEGIN , a special probe that runs at the beginning of the program (like awk).

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Latency C++ Cache Programming 68

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This applies to both virtual machines and container-based deployments. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. In addition, monitoring DevOps processes provide the following benefits: Improve system performance. The result is faster and more data-driven decision making. Help systems meet SLAs.

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. This is why the choice of programming language is so important from the outset. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

more capable, and built from the ground up for the modern era of the eBPF virtual machine. Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. It's shaping up to be a DTrace version 2.0: eBPF does more. variable this->name $name.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

The Problem Of Unpredictable Performance. At the same time, we have a widening performance gap. In terms for performance, these phones have plateaued at the performance of a 2012 iPhone. Applications built for the Web are expected to run on devices that fall anywhere on this broad performance spectrum.

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Edge Perspectives

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I recently wrote about the growing fear produced by the mounting performance pressure of the Big Shift. These walls – either physical or virtual - are designed to protect us from a range of perceived threats that may vary depending on what part of the world we are in – immigrants, foreign competition and subversive ideas.

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Virtualization Programming Design Scalability 46

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

More organizations are adopting a hybrid IT environment, with data center and virtualized components. Therefore, they need an environment that offers scalable computing, storage, and networking. Instead of treating storage, server, compute, and network functions as separate entities, HCI virtualizes these resources.

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Infrastructure Storage Virtualization Network 200

The Morning Paper

APRIL 4, 2019

wpa_supplicant , an OSS library commonly used to connect to wireless networks using WPA , reads a cleartext password from a configuration file or network manager and stores in in memory. The Ginseng compiler performs static taint analysis to figure out all variables that may carry sensitive information (e.g.

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Operating System Systems Wireless Transportation 43

Dynatrace

APRIL 14, 2020

Have you ever had to provision 2,500 virtual host instances and 120 Kubernetes clusters in two days? Well, that’s exactly what the Dynatrace University team did to support Dynatrace’s hands-on training (HoT) days at Dynatrace’s annual user conference Perform in Las Vegas. Perform 2020 Infrastructure Setup. Dynatrace news.

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Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When trying to develop a new piece of software or an app, one of the first things a developer has to do is pick a programming language. For years, the debate has raged on regarding which programming language is better, Java or Scala. In essence, Java is classified as an object oriented programming language.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Platform performance —get visibility into the performance of the Citrix platform to optimize application delivery.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

Here’s the problem though: As a website grows in authority and expands its reach, security and performance problems will arise if the hosting configuration isn’t prepared to handle it. That way, if one server experiences an outage or another website compromises the performance of others around it, your website can safely be hosted elsewhere.

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Website Servers Design Traffic 48

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The AWS Service Ready Program was established to support the seamless integration and deployment of AWS services. It differentiates Dynatrace as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a fully tested product on AWS Outposts. “We We are delighted to welcome Dynatrace to the AWS Outposts Ready Program. What is AWS Outposts?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A new generation of automated solutions — designed to provide end-to-end observability of assets, applications, and performance across legacy and cloud systems — make that job easier, says Federal Chief Technology Officer Willie Hicks at Dynatrace. Observability means taking application performance management (APM) to the next level.

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Cloud Monitoring Network Azure 171

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

The installer will also provide the options to perform a full ‘Custom’ installation, or to ‘Download Media’ only as the download button above provides. Launching this program brings you to the new Basic Installer Screen. So the initial time to run this all depends on your network speed.

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Dynatrace

MAY 9, 2022

But, as resources move off premises, IT teams often lack visibility into system performance and security issues. Causal AI automatically identifies performance problems, security issues, and more. Define the strategy, assess the environment, and perform migration-readiness assessments and workshops. Mobilize and plan.

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Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Java 197

Dynatrace

JULY 10, 2019

With this approach, you can add any relevant metric(s) from your process to Dynatrace, and then chart it, alert on it, or correlate it with your process’ performance. With insights from Dynatrace into network latency and utilization of your cloud resources, you can design your scaling mechanisms and save on costly CPU hours.

Java 137

Java Best Practices Metrics Azure 137

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It enlists software “robots” to automate the rote, repetitive, or tedious tasks that bridge virtual gaps, or facilitate virtual transfers or exchanges, in and between common business processes. Unlike humans, a software robot doesn’t get tired, bored, or distracted, especially when its performing a tedious or repetitive task.

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Processing Programming Virtualization Technology 83