Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools]), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

Open Source 139

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 139

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Created by Alastair Robertson , bpftrace is an open source high-level tracing front-end that lets you analyze systems in custom ways. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it. Facebook also have many engineers working on BPF and bcc, who have made it the mature technology it is today.

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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Performance Design Best Practices Testing 123

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Ceph is a widely-used, open-source distributed file system that followed this convention [of building on top of a local file system] for a decade. To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. S3), RADOS block device (cf. The first implementation (c.

Storage 64

Storage Systems Hardware Efficiency 64

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, it’s not an understatement when I say that Citus is one of the more interesting technologies that I’ve come across when scaling PostgreSQL. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. While I was busy writing and publishing advanced performance tools using DTrace (my open source [DTraceToolkit] and other [DTrace tools], aka scripts), I noticed something odd: I was producing more DTrace tools than were coming out of Sun itself.

Open Source 40

Open Source Code Engineering Technology 40