Advice on when and why to form a computer performance engineering team, based on the author's experience at Netflix and Intel.
An engineer shares his 3-year experience of working remotely from Australia for a US firm, detailing the challenges of extreme timezone differences.
How eBPF technology can prevent system crashes like the massive July 2024 Windows outage caused by a faulty kernel driver update.
A list of essential Linux tools to pre-install for diagnosing performance issues and outages, including package names.
Blog post about the new eBPF documentary, which tells the story of how the revolutionary Linux kernel technology was developed and accepted.
Explains why eBPF observability tools, designed for low overhead, are not suitable for security monitoring due to evasion risks.
Brendan Gregg's SREcon22 APAC keynote on the future of computing performance, covering new developments and predictions.
A discussion of common pitfalls in measuring tail latency metrics in distributed systems, using examples from Twitter's infrastructure.
Explains how to get high value from distributed tracing with less effort, using a real-world implementation from Twitter as a case study.
