VI · Distributed-systems pioneers

Brendan Gregg

~1980–

Intel · ex-Netflix · ex-Joyent · performance engineer

Gave us

The flame graph (2011) — now the standard CPU-profiling visualisation. The USE method (Utilisation, Saturation, Errors). The DTrace and BPF performance toolsets.

The story

A Netflix performance engineer who turned arcane kernel introspection into a craft anyone could practise. His book "Systems Performance" is the practitioner's reference. Flame graphs alone changed how an entire industry profiles software.

More from Distributed-systems pioneers

Eric Brewer UC Berkeley · ex-Google VP · CAP theorem Pat Helland Tandem · Microsoft · Amazon · Salesforce Werner Vogels CTO of Amazon · Dynamo paper Adrian Cockcroft Sun · Netflix · AWS · serverless evangelist

Across the field

VII Doug Cutting Cloudera (chief architect) · ex-Yahoo · co-creator of Hadoop · Lucene · Nutch VII Jeff Dean · Sanjay Ghemawat Google senior fellows · co-authors of MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, TPU VII Ryan Dahl Creator of Node.js · creator of Deno · independent VII Moxie Marlinspike Founder of Signal · cryptographer · former sailor VII Geoffrey Hinton · Yann LeCun · Yoshua Bengio 2018 Turing laureates · the deep-learning trio I Claude Shannon Mathematician at Bell Labs · MIT I Alan Turing Mathematician · Government Code & Cypher School · NPL · Manchester I John von Neumann Mathematician · Institute for Advanced Study · Manhattan Project

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