Brendan Gregg
Fellow Intel Corporation
Brendan Gregg is an internationally renowned expert in computing performance and now works at Intel as a Fellow. Previously a leader of performance engineering at Netflix, where he did performance design, evaluation, analysis, and tuning. He authored Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools in the Addison-Wesley professional computing series, and received the USENIX LISA Outstanding Achievement award. Previously among the top performance experts at Sun Microsystems, he has delivered industry-leading performance for a variety of products. He has also created widely used performance tools, methodologies, and visualizations, including flame graphs, and pioneered eBPF as an observability technology. His work has saved the industry over US$1B, and has been the basis for multiple startups.
Follow Brendan on Twitter @brendangregg and LinkedIn at /brendangregg.
Talks I've Given
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Computing Performance 2021: What's On the Horizon
Featuring Brendan Gregg
The pursuit of faster performance in computing is the driving reason for many new technologies and updates. This talk discusses performance improvements now underway that you will likely be adopting soon, for processors (including 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs), memory (including DDR5 and...
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Linux Systems Performance
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Systems performance studies the performance of computing systems, including all physical components and the full software stack to help you find performance wins for your application and kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this...
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Linux Systems Performance
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Systems performance studies the performance of computing systems, including all physical components and the full software stack to help you find performance wins for your application and kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this...
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Linux Systems Performance
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Systems performance studies the performance of computing systems, including all physical components and the full software stack to help you find performance wins for your application and kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this...
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Linux Systems Performance
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Systems performance studies the performance of computing systems, including all physical components and the full software stack to help you find performance wins for your application and kernel. However, most of us are not performance or kernel engineers, and have limited time to study this...
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Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix
Featuring Brendan Gregg
At Netflix, improving the performance of our cloud means happier customers and lower costs, and involves root cause analysis of applications, runtimes, operating systems, and hypervisors, in an environment of 150k cloud instances that undergo numerous production changes each week. Apart from the...
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Working at Netflix
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Netflix is a company that innovates on not only technology, but also company culture. The Netflix culture deck, now a memo, has had over 18 million views, and describes an environment of "freedom and responsibility", "context not control", and "highlight aligned, loosely coupled". In this...
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Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix
Featuring Brendan Gregg
At Netflix, improving the performance of our cloud means happier customers and lower costs, and involves root cause analysis of applications, runtimes, operating systems, and hypervisors, in an environment of 150k cloud instances that undergo numerous production changes each week. Apart from the...cloud -
Cloud Performance Root Cause Analysis at Netflix
Featuring Brendan Gregg
At Netflix, improving the performance of our cloud means happier customers and lower costs, and involves root cause analysis of applications, runtimes, operating systems, and hypervisors, in an environment of 150k cloud instances that undergo numerous production changes each week. Apart from the...
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Keynote: Working at Netflix
Featuring Brendan Gregg
Netflix is a company that innovates on not only technology, but also company culture. The Netflix culture deck, now a memo, has had over 18 million views, and describes an environment of "freedom and responsibility", "context not control", and "highlight aligned, loosely coupled". In this...
culture