SE Radio 225: Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance

Venue: Skype
Senior performance architect and author of *Systems Performance* Brendan Gregg talks with Robert Blumen about systems performance: how the hardware and OS layers affect application behavior. The discussion covers the scope of systems performance, systems performance in the software life cycle, the role of performance analysis in architecture, methodologies for solving performance problems, dynamic tracing and tracing tools such as DTrace, the disk and file subsystems, the CPU and memory subsystems, and the challenges virtualization poses for performance analysts.

Show Notes

Related Links

• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud by Brendan Gregg: http://www.brendangregg.com/sysperfbook.html
• DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD (Oracle Solaris Series): http://www.amazon.com/DTrace-Dynamic-Tracing-Solaris-FreeBSD/dp/0132091518
• Brendan Gregg’s home page: http://www.brendangregg.com/
• Brendan Gregg’s blog: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/index.html
• Brendan Gregg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendangregg
• Brendan Gregg videos: http://brendangregg.com/index.html#Videos
• Brendan Gregg on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/brendangregg/
• Shouting in the Data Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4&list=PL53645214EDFD773F
• The DTrace Project: http://dtrace.org/blogs/
• FlameGraph on GitHub: https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph