Brendan Gregg
Encyclopedia
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 in San Francisco.
Gregg is one of the leading experts on DTrace
, creator of the DTraceToolkit, and author of two books on DTrace and systems performance. He is also the star of the Shouting in the Data Center viral video.
Method and system for accessing data using an asymmetric cache device, Adam H. Leventhal, Brendan D. Gregg, Bryan M. Cantrill (patent #7,979,638)
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
and later at Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
following its acquisition by Sun. He left Oracle in October, 2010, to become the Lead Performance Engineer at Joyent
Joyent
Joyent is a cloud computing software and services company based in San Francisco, California, since 2004. Joyent provides application virtualization....
.
Gregg was born in Newcastle, New South Wales
Newcastle, New South Wales
The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
and attended University of Newcastle, Australia
University of Newcastle, Australia
The University of Newcastle is an Australian public university that was established in 1965. The University's main and largest campus is located in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle in New South Wales...
. After working as a technical instructor for Sun Microsystems and later as a consultant, he was hired by Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill
Bryan M. Cantrill is an engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following its acquisition by Sun. He left Oracle on July 25, 2010 to become the Vice President of Engineering at Joyent....
to join Sun's Fishworks team in San Francisco.
Gregg is one of the leading experts on DTrace
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time...
, creator of the DTraceToolkit, and author of two books on DTrace and systems performance. He is also the star of the Shouting in the Data Center viral video.
External links
- Brendan's blog
- video of "Visualizations for Performance Analysis" at USENIX LISA 2010
- video of Little Shop of Performance Horrors, talk at the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG), October, 2009
- video of Performance Instrumentation Counters, talk by Brendan Gregg, Jim Mauro, Roch Bourbonnais
- video of Performance: Experimentation, talk by Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais
- video of Performance: The "Not a Problem" Problem", talk by Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, Roch Bourbonnais
- pdf from Dynamic Tracing and the DTrace book, Brendan Gregg, Bay area Large Installation System Administration (BayLISA) 2011
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)