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Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg

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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.

At the end of the day, Brendan gave two quick summary talks on statistics and visualizations, presented here as a teaser.

The full playlist from the workshop is here.

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OpenZFS Developer Summit

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Spent the day filming and streaming this. The full playlist is here, below are links to each individual talk.

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Talking about Woodstock School on the Kamla Show

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This interview took place a few months later, and was shown on a local channel this week, you can also watch it above. It was fun and, of course, I’m always happy to have an opportunity to talk about Woodstock!

I also enjoyed chatting with the evening’s other guest, Asha Sharma, author of American in Khadi: The Definitive Biography of Satyanand Stokes. Stokes was her grandfather, a fascinating character. The only American to be arrested for participating in the struggle for India’s independence, he also introduced apples to Himachal Pradesh, where they are now a major cash crop.

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Reviews of “Systems Performance”

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Buy the book!

Brendan is reticent about blowing his own horn, so I gathered this list for him!

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scott_s 7 hours ago | link

This is brilliant – I just spent 15 minutes browsing his site, and I am seriously considering purchasing his book.I’m recently realized that I have built up a lot of intuition over the years for how to improve the performance of interesting applications on real systems. I follow a lot of these procedures. Recently, I’ve been trying to explain to others how to do this, but I’ve been explaining it in an ad-hoc manner, as it comes up. Turns out, Brendan Gregg has already explained it all in a systematic, digestible way.

Really brilliant stuff. Computer systems are discoverable, we can always figure out what’s going on with enough patience, reasoning, a systematic approach, and the right tools. I’m glad to have a resource I can send to others, and that I can hopefully learn more from.

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incision 3 hours ago | link

>’I am seriously considering purchasing his book.’In my opinion, you should go ahead and do it.

It’s available on Safari where I’m a subscriber, but I grabbed a copy anyway – it’s not just good, but pretty damn unique in that it supplies a wide breadth while maintaining good depth of coverage.

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If you’re reading the book, reviews on Amazon are always welcome, too!

Buy from Amazon
or click the image to the right to buy from Informit, which usually has a print + ebook bundle available.

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Brendan is reticent about blowing his own horn. So I gathered this list for him:

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ps You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon.

Pearson Education (InformIT)

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Systems Performance Book Videos

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While Brendan was writing his new book Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, we filmed some short videos about why he wanted to write a systems performance book, how hard it was to get started, and about a few chapters as he completed them…

Then life became busy and insane (partly because he was writing a book, but not only), and we didn’t shoot anything at all for months. And then, finally, the book was finished.

Many months after that, when the book was finally in print, we launched it at a meetup of BayLISA, where Brendan gave a long talk on all of it, with in-depth look at Chapter 6: CPUs.

The book is also available from Informitin paper, ebook, or a bundle of both!

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