A few (extremely busy) weeks ago, Brendan Gregg wrote a blog post very different from his usual technical treatises: it was about me. And it’s probably the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me. It’s taken me a while to come up with an adequate response – I have been, most uncharacteristically, struck dumb. But,… Continue reading Brendan
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Metrics Workshop at LISA13
At USENIX LISA`13, Brendan Gregg led a Metrics Workshop, along with Narayan Desai, Kent Skaar, Theo Schlossnagle, and Caskey Dickson. “This was an opportunity for many industry professionals to discuss problems with performance metrics and monitoring, and to propose and discuss solutions.” More details from Brendan here. I filmed the day, above is a playlist of… Continue reading Metrics Workshop at LISA13
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
dtrace.conf 2012
In April, 2012, I organized and ran the second-ever DTrace conference (the first had been held in 2008). I found the venue and sponsors, did all the logistics, live streamed and filmed the entire day’s proceedings. It was run somewhat unconference style, with Bryan Cantrill emceeing, so the final list of talks you see below emerged… Continue reading dtrace.conf 2012
Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg
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