speaking (19)
- The spoken word. - June 9, 2005
- OSCON database replication slides. - August 5, 2005
- Clustered Logging - January 2, 2006
- PHP Sucks. - August 3, 2006
- OSCON 2008: And now for something completely different. - April 28, 2008
- OSCON2008 Presentation - July 24, 2008
- Whirlwind - October 19, 2008
- Databases performing? Oh my! - March 31, 2009
- Robert, spreading the wealth as usual. - April 3, 2009
- Web: you can now not suck. - June 26, 2009
- pg_amqp slides from PgEast2010 - March 30, 2010
- Surge: scalability matters - June 4, 2010
- Insight into the wild and crazy OmniTI - July 20, 2010
- Reconnoiter at OSCON 2010 - August 1, 2010
- OmniTI's Surge. Year one. Done. Awesome. - October 7, 2010
- Web Performance Boot Camp - November 2, 2010
- Using Esper to manage real-time data. - February 4, 2011
- BVIO2014 - April 4, 2014
- CraftConf 2015 ~ Distributed Tracing - April 29, 2015
databases (16)
- OSCON database replication slides. - August 5, 2005
- PostgreSQL Fresh and Large - November 24, 2005
- PostreSQL swelling - December 28, 2005
- PostgreSQL performance through the eyes of DTrace - October 27, 2006
- PostgreSQL warm standby on ZFS crack - July 3, 2007
- Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding - September 8, 2007
- PostgreSQL Conference East '08. Bring it... Yeah. - March 27, 2008
- PostgreSQL Community - March 29, 2008
- PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris - March 30, 2008
- Probing for Success - April 13, 2008
- What time is it? - June 16, 2009
- AMQP for PostgreSQL - December 19, 2009
- pg_amqp slides from PgEast2010 - March 30, 2010
- pg_controldata from SQL - April 29, 2010
- What's your postgres search_path? - October 9, 2010
- Theo seeks aspiring database administrator - December 28, 2010
zfs (13)
- ZFS and mixed results - August 27, 2006
- ZFS send^H^H^H^H trickle. - December 27, 2006
- ZFS rules: congratulations to FreeBSD, Sun and Pawel Dawidek - April 6, 2007
- PostgreSQL warm standby on ZFS crack - July 3, 2007
- Zimbra on ZFS and Zones. - October 30, 2007
- ZFS. Respect. - April 23, 2008
- Zetaback. Respect. - September 19, 2008
- Databases performing? Oh my! - March 31, 2009
- Disk benchmarking with dd -- don't - April 15, 2009
- ZFS and Zetaback win again - June 18, 2010
- Designing for vendor malfunctions - August 19, 2010
- Everyone is to blame for this continued expectation that such magic is possible. - April 25, 2011
- Data rot - January 19, 2015
programming (12)
- Perfect[-enough], cheap[-enough] hashing - February 5, 2004
- What's missing from software development? - July 3, 2005
- Theo seeks aspiring programmer - April 12, 2006
- XML/XSLT and DocBook for docs - August 31, 2008
- Squeezing precise numbers into fixed width types... or faking it - March 5, 2010
- Plan Wagon - May 10, 2010
- Why JSON sucks. - October 10, 2010
- #ywahusty - February 4, 2011
- Why the ACM is important to me. - January 24, 2014
- 折伏 - as it relates to coding - February 8, 2014
- libmtev: on the surface and under the hood. - February 14, 2017
- Software Abstractions - January 8, 2020
solaris (12)
- isaexec and magical builds - June 10, 2005
- Open Solaris opens Solaris - June 14, 2005
- Solaris 10 oops. oops. oops. oops. - January 24, 2006
- Compiling DBD::Oracle - April 26, 2006
- Choosing Solaris 10 over Linux - November 29, 2006
- Debugging a memory-exhausting mod_perl app - February 4, 2007
- Zimbra on ZFS and Zones. - October 30, 2007
- PostgreSQL: Looking under the hood with Solaris - March 30, 2008
- Databases performing? Oh my! - March 31, 2009
- Nice write-up on zones. - April 12, 2009
- Designing for vendor malfunctions - August 19, 2010
- OmniOS - April 12, 2012
scalability (11)
- Scalable Internet Architectures - July 11, 2004
- The End Has Come - May 11, 2006
- Scalability vs. Performance: it isn't a battle - May 24, 2007
- Partitioning vs. Federation vs. Sharding - September 8, 2007
- OSCON 2008: And now for something completely different. - April 28, 2008
- Dissecting today's Internet traffic spikes - May 20, 2008
- Scalability and concessions - July 2, 2008
- Last second scaling hack - September 16, 2008
- Scalability in Curriculum - October 28, 2008
- Surge: scalability matters - June 4, 2010
- Operating at Scale - June 22, 2010
debugging (9)
- perl leaks - August 26, 2005
- PANIC! (Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris) - September 19, 2005
- Beware of strace - October 11, 2005
- PostgreSQL performance through the eyes of DTrace - October 27, 2006
- OSCON2008 Presentation - July 24, 2008
- from pcap to postgres: forensic performance analysis - April 2, 2010
- MDB, CTF, DWARF, and other angelic things - December 5, 2014
- mdb custom dmods - December 8, 2014
- CraftConf 2015 ~ Distributed Tracing - April 29, 2015
illumos (9)
- isaexec and magical builds - June 10, 2005
- Open Solaris opens Solaris - June 14, 2005
- Nice write-up on zones. - April 12, 2009
- Oh God, SMF rocks. - May 27, 2009
- The desktop and server: oil and water. - March 24, 2012
- OmniOS - April 12, 2012
- MDB, CTF, DWARF, and other angelic things - December 5, 2014
- mdb custom dmods - December 8, 2014
- .SUNW_cap arcana - February 28, 2017
dtrace (8)
- dtrace -- instrumenting user-space - August 5, 2005
- PostgreSQL performance through the eyes of DTrace - October 27, 2006
- dtrace.conf(08) - March 15, 2007
- Spine-tingling dtrace euphoria: What the SCSI? - December 20, 2007
- Probing for Success - April 13, 2008
- Eloquence in technical prose. - November 5, 2008
- DTrace and Apache - November 6, 2008
- Software Engineer CTA - September 13, 2010
monitoring (8)
- Reconnoiter and another platform - June 27, 2008
- Reconnoiter Update - June 4, 2009
- highscalability.com talks about OmniTI's Reconnoiter - August 16, 2009
- from pcap to postgres: forensic performance analysis - April 2, 2010
- Reconnoiter at OSCON 2010 - August 1, 2010
- Capacity Planning - January 6, 2011
- Why haven't all my graphs been useful like this? - January 20, 2011
- Using Esper to manage real-time data. - February 4, 2011
performance (6)
- PostgreSQL performance through the eyes of DTrace - October 27, 2006
- Scalability vs. Performance: it isn't a battle - May 24, 2007
- Web: you can now not suck. - June 26, 2009
- Make the web a faster place. Pretty please. - July 7, 2009
- Perform or Die - October 30, 2010
- Web Performance Boot Camp - November 2, 2010
career (5)
- Theo seeks aspiring programmer - April 12, 2006
- Theo seeks aspiring Systems Administrator - December 19, 2006
- :So you want to be a hero... - May 7, 2007
- Theo seeks aspiring database administrator - December 28, 2010
- Why the ACM is important to me. - January 24, 2014
postgres (5)
- Big Bad PostgreSQL - July 26, 2006
- Oracle to PostreSQL: where'd my tools go? - November 1, 2006
- Big Bad Postgres Indeed - August 11, 2009
- from pcap to postgres: forensic performance analysis - April 2, 2010
- Everyone is to blame for this continued expectation that such magic is possible. - April 25, 2011
circonus (4)
- Capacity Planning - January 6, 2011
- The myopic focus on IT and engineering has to stop. - August 27, 2012
- Data rot - January 19, 2015
- Weather Yonder - December 4, 2017
omnios (4)
- The desktop and server: oil and water. - March 24, 2012
- OmniOS - April 12, 2012
- MDB, CTF, DWARF, and other angelic things - December 5, 2014
- mdb custom dmods - December 8, 2014
operations (3)
- Theo seeks aspiring Systems Administrator - December 19, 2006
- Systems Operations and Fishing. - November 3, 2008
- Managing risk by deploying incessantly - March 18, 2010
cloud (2)
- Cloud storage primer - June 11, 2009
- Thoughts on the cloud - March 23, 2010
linux (2)
- Beware of strace - October 11, 2005
- Choosing Solaris 10 over Linux - November 29, 2006
mysql (2)
- MySQL: the best database I'm afraid to use - February 5, 2004
- MySQL: all their base are belong to others. - December 21, 2007
opensolaris (2)
- Open Solaris opens Solaris - June 14, 2005
- OmniOS - April 12, 2012
smartos (2)
- MDB, CTF, DWARF, and other angelic things - December 5, 2014
- mdb custom dmods - December 8, 2014
smoking (2)
- Smoke Meat Everyday - November 3, 2017
- Smoked Watermelon & Mint Ice Cream - November 4, 2017
advice (1)
- Creativity and Execution - July 10, 2012
apache (1)
- DTrace and Apache - November 6, 2008
fish (1)
- Moroccan Tilapia with a hint of Mexico - April 2, 2006
ice-cream (1)
- Smoked Watermelon & Mint Ice Cream - November 4, 2017
lua (1)
- Extending and Embedding - October 7, 2009
meat (1)
- Smoke Meat Everyday - November 3, 2017
nature (1)
- Dearest tree - January 14, 2020
oracle (1)
- Oracle to PostreSQL: where'd my tools go? - November 1, 2006
pork (1)
- Pulling Pork - July 2, 2004
religion (1)
- What's love got to do with it? - January 19, 2009
rights (1)
- What does it mean to be a patriot? - February 27, 2010
seafood (1)
- Sweet Shrimp Goulash - August 27, 2008
security (1)
- OpenSSH and SecurID, still a good choice. - September 2, 2008
smf (1)
- Oh God, SMF rocks. - May 27, 2009
sriracha (1)
- Devilishly Hot Deviled Eggs w/ Company - January 23, 2011
storage (1)
- Cloud storage primer - June 11, 2009
windows (1)
- Trying Windows, but it hurts - October 6, 2005
