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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/ Brendan's blog]
* {{cite web|url=http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/|title=Brendan's blog}}
* [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa10/tech/ video of "Visualizations for Performance Analysis" at USENIX LISA 2010]
* {{cite web|url=https://db.usenix.org/events/lisa10/tech/#thurs|title=Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More)|publisher=[[USENIX]] [[Large Installation System Administration Conference|LISA]] 2010|author=Brendan Gregg|date=2010-11-11}}
* [http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/little_shop_of_performance_horrors1 video of Little Shop of Performance Horrors], talk at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG), October, 2009
* {{cite web|url=http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/little_shop_of_performance_horrors1|title=Little Shop of Performance Horrors|work=FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group)|author=Brendan Gregg|date=2009-10-29|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://blip.tv/oracle-solaris-video/little-shop-of-performance-horrors-part-1-3146307|archivedate=2010-01-24}}
* [http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_instrumentation_counters video of Performance Instrumentation Counters], talk by Brendan Gregg, Jim Mauro, Roch Bourbonnais
* {{cite web|url=http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_instrumentation_counters|title=Performance Instrumentation Counters|author=Brendan Gregg, Jim Mauro, Roch Bourbonnais|date=2010-04-29|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://blip.tv/oracle-solaris-video/performance-instrumentation-counters-3576295|archivedate=2010-04-29}}
* [http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_experimentation video of Performance: Experimentation], talk by Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais
* {{cite web|url=http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_experimentation|title=Performance: Experimentation|author=Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais|date=2010-06-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://blip.tv/oracle-solaris-video/performance-experimentation-3740794|archivedate=2010-06-07}}
* [http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_the_not_a_problem video of Performance: The "Not a Problem" Problem"], talk by Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais
* {{cite web|url=http://blogs.oracle.com/video/entry/performance_the_not_a_problem|title=Performance: The "Not a Problem" Problem|author=Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais|date=2010-06-07|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://blip.tv/oracle-solaris-video/performance-the-not-a-problem-problem-3742672|archivedate=2010-06-07}}
* [http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/files/2011/05/BayLISA_DTrace.pdf pdf from Dynamic Tracing and the DTrace book], Brendan Gregg, Bay area Large Installation System Administration (BayLISA) 2011
* {{cite web|url=http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/files/2011/05/BayLISA_DTrace.pdf|title=Dynamic Tracing and the DTrace book|author=Brendan Gregg|date=2011-05-20|work=Bay[[Large Installation System Administration Conference|LISA]] 2011}}

== Patents ==
== Patents ==



Revision as of 02:06, 1 February 2012

Brendan Gregg

Brendan Gregg is a kernel and performance engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition by Sun. He left Oracle in October, 2010, to become the Lead Performance Engineer at Joyent.

Gregg was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and attended University of Newcastle, Australia. After working as a technical instructor for Sun Microsystems and later as a consultant, he was hired by Bryan Cantrill to join Sun's Fishworks team[1] in San Francisco.

Gregg is one of the leading experts on DTrace, creator of the DTraceToolkit[2], and author of two books on DTrace and systems performance. He is also the star of the Shouting in the Data Center viral video.[3]

Publications

  • Brendan Gregg, Jim Mauro (2011). DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. ISBN 0132091518.
  • Brendan Gregg (2010). "Visualizing System Latency". Communications of the ACM. 53 (7): 48–54. doi:10.1145/ 1785414.1785435. Retrieved 2012-01-31. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg (2006). Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. ASIN 0131568191. {{cite book}}: Check |asin= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Talks

References

  1. ^ Bryan Cantrill (2008-11-10). "Fishworks: Now it can be told".
  2. ^ Brendan Gregg. "DTraceToolkit".
  3. ^ Bryan Cantrill, Brendan Gregg (2008-12-31). "Shouting in the Datacenter".

External links

Patents

Method and system for caching data in a storage system, Brendan D. Gregg, Adam H. Leventhal, Bryan M. Cantrill (patent #8,032,708)

Method and system for accessing data using an asymmetric cache device, Adam H. Leventhal, Brendan D. Gregg, Bryan M. Cantrill (patent #7,979,638)


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