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One of the most impactful pieces of advice I ever got was just to lie still in bed.

Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!

Learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow. Translations: 🇷🇺 - leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

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To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly…

A collection of documents, slides, and videos about Linux performance, mostly created by Brendan Gregg, and with a focus on performance analysis.

A primer on GPU architecture and computing

View the winning entries from the 2023 Photomicrography Competition

Last weekend I had a chance to talk with some students who just got their degree. They are pursuing their first software engineer job. In conversation with them, I learned that they have a pretty wrong perception of this job. This is because the reality for…

Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.

learn the grammar rules for your and you're, apostrophes, there and their. helping you not to look so stupid and ugly.

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Here are some proposed questions for interviewing someone for an SRE role. Really, these are just conversation starters to get them reflecting and discussing specific incident details. The question…

Explore Isovalent Labs for hands-on learning in eBPF, Cilium, and Kubernetes security. Step-by-step guides cover everything from basics to advanced use cases.

By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon, which starts at $1/month! My 🌶️ spicy take 🌶️ is that I don’t like seeing tech talks live. I get very little out of 95% of…

Reflecting on my engineering career and what I could have done better.

For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors.