Sutter's Mill

MARCH 11, 2024

I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities. When I say “safety” unqualified here, I mean programming language safety, which benefits both software security and software safety.

C++ 140

C++ Programming Code Java 140

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? How would you _time_ time?

Speed 124

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 124

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? How would you _time_ time?

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40