What Linux Can Learn from Solaris Performance, and Vice-Versa

Brendan Gregg keynoted the Southern California Area Linux Expo this year, to a packed room, with this talk: How does Linux system performance compare to other OSes, particularly the performance-focused Solaris family? What features inspired by them could be added to Linux? Both are bristling with performance features and optimizations, and it’s difficult enough to fully understand… Continue reading What Linux Can Learn from Solaris Performance, and Vice-Versa

Reviews of “Systems Performance”

Buy the book! Brendan is reticent about blowing his own horn, so I gathered this list for him! Hacker News: scott_s 7 hours ago | link This is brilliant – I just spent 15 minutes browsing his site, and I am seriously considering purchasing his book.I’m recently realized that I have built up a lot of intuition… Continue reading Reviews of “Systems Performance”

Systems Performance Book Videos

While Brendan was writing his new book Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, we filmed some short videos about why he wanted to write a systems performance book, how hard it was to get started, and about a few chapters as he completed them… Disks chapter File Systems chapter Methodologies & OS chapters Then life… Continue reading Systems Performance Book Videos

Look What We Got!

The first copies came in of Brendan Gregg’s new book, Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud. ps You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon. You might also like: No related posts.