At USENIX LISA 13, Brendan Gregg led a full-day, interactive workshop on metrics, with attendees from across the tech industry. Tutorial material was provided by Brendan, along with Caskey Dickson of Google and Theo Schlossnagle of OmniTI. There were also group exercises and presentations. I filmed it all, and we’ll be rolling it out to everyone soon.… Continue reading Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg
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OpenZFS Developer Summit
Spent the day filming and streaming this. The full playlist is here, below are links to each individual talk. Matt Ahrens Intro Platform Panel: illumos (Chris Siden), FreeBSD, Linux (Brian Behlendorf), and OSX (Jurgen) Platform-independent code repository (Matt Ahrens) Storage Tiering (Boris Protopopov) Vendor Panel (all represented companies sharing their work) Community Planning (Karyn Ritter)… Continue reading OpenZFS Developer Summit
The Perf Book: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
Brendan’s frustrations getting the Systems Performance book started. Spoiler: the book did eventually get started, and finished. You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon. You might also like: No related posts.
Why a Systems Performance Book?
Using videos to promote books has become standard practice in the last few years, as Brendan Gregg and I were well aware while he was writing his latest. We’ve made many videos together, so we figured it would be easy to film a series of brief videos, say one per chapter, during the writing of… Continue reading Why a Systems Performance Book?
Marketing Your Tech Talent
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to present this talk at the Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine. Slide deck with notes – Marketing Your Tech Talent Some very kind words about the talk from Joe Brockmeier here. I’m just gonna brag a little here: Videoing the talks at #monktoberfest pic.twitter.com/p6XnDGDL2O — Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery) October… Continue reading Marketing Your Tech Talent