Sep 29, 2012 · It’s both exciting and nerve-wracking to develop highly visible production service platforms. Exciting, in that the ideation phase of creating a differentiated offering inspires “creatives” …

Aug 24, 2022 · “We often think of movements as starting with a call to action. But movement research suggests that they actually start with emotion — a diffuse dissatisfaction with the status quo and a …

Jun 6, 2014 · Choose Your Own Adventure: SRE Life at Red Hat Red Hat does managed services. We do DevOps in the style of the Google SRE Book. We’re a decent sized and growing org that supports …

Apr 26, 2013 · I tweeted recently that %usr is what we wanna do; %sys is what we gotta do…What I meant was to point out that the kernel’s main goals in life are to bring up hardware, and manage …

Nov 15, 2013 · Starting with some background…What is the kernel timer tick (aka LOC interrupt), and what does it do ? The kernel timer tick is a interrupt triggered at a periodic interval (based on the kern…

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Going a step further, you often hear about using tools like numactl or taskset to affinitize your application to certain cores, and chrt/nice to control the task’s priority and policy related to the scheduler. These …