Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

LISA originally stood for "Large Installation System Administration," where "large" meant systems with more than a gigabyte of storage, or with more than 100 users. To learn more about how LISA has evolved, browse last year's LISA17 conference program , and see the slides and talk videos.

DevOps 40

DevOps Network Best Practices Programming 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

When compressed, fixed-length string columns do not store trailing blanks, making them just as efficient as variable-length string columns from a storage point of view. Some of this may be due to somewhat out-of-date considerations like space usage. Unfortunately, these operations are not currently metadata-only for compressed objects.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

SQL Server According to Bob

MARCH 27, 2017

Invoke generate-core.sh – capture system information – paldumper capture – compress all captured files Storage location: /var/opt/mssql/log (core*). Microsoft Engineer Processing Flow. However, a mini or full capture is viable for a Microsoft engineer. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

Servers 40

Servers Virtualization Storage Design 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We suspect this points to a general drift toward software teams taking more responsibility for infrastructure, and increasingly, enabled by serverless options. As noted earlier, the majority of survey respondents are software engineers. Industries of survey respondents. Organization size of survey respondents.

Serverless 88

Serverless Architecture FinTech Infrastructure 88

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. Neal, Matt, and others from Windows Storage, Windows Azure Storage, Windows Hyper-V, … validating Windows behaviors. · Any storage device that can survive a power outage. Starting with the Linux 4.18

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 14, 2021

Users of Prodicle: Production Office Coordinator on their job As the adoption of Prodicle grew over time, Productions asked for more features, which led to the system quickly evolving in multiple programming languages under different teams.

Traffic 160

Traffic Latency Java Google 160

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 3, 2019

component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Another data point from Miller’s presentation: in 2018 57-70% of the average software project comprises open source components, and that fraction is rising fast. Déjà Vu in action.

Open Source 52

Open Source Programming Speed Software 52

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 26, 2020

See e.g. " Debugging data flows in reactive programs." Changing the program’s state in some way. The non-deterministic input vectors for a JavaScript program are well-known and (compared to POSIX) very small in number. Reverb also take a snapshot of the client’s local storage (e.g.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Network Latency 86

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

During the ten week course, students implement four different assignments: an exactly-once RPC protocol; a primary-backup system; Paxos; and a scalable, transactional key-value storage system. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. Each node runs in a single threaded event loop.

Systems 43

Systems Efficiency Testing Strategy 43

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and storing the events in a table requires reading the events, streaming to table storage followed by an order by event sequence query. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server. Large traces can encounter the 32-bit SSMS memory limitations.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Code Servers Cache 40