Close to the metal
Benchmarking
Benchmarks, Performance, Scalability, and Capacity What's Behind the Numbers - Baron Schwartz
CppCon 2015 Chandler Carruth Tuning C++ Benchmarks, and CPUs, and Compilers! Oh My!
CppCon 2015 James Radigan “CLANG + C2 - EngineeringFuturesMeasurements
Dmytro Vyazelenko — Using Java Microbenchmark Harness (JMH) in a real world project
Performance Testing 101 - Ian Molyneaux (Intechnica) and Larry Haig (Intechnica)
All In With Determinism for Performance and Testing in Distributed Systems by John Hugg
How to create performance results that don't lie - Ben Evans (jClarity)
Testing Distributed Systems w Deterministic Simulation by Will Wilson
Performance
Thought Leaders: Martin Thompson, Brendan Gregg, Baron Schwartz
Visualizing performance data in engaging ways - Mark Zeman (SpeedCurve)
Monitorama PDX 2015 - Brendan Gregg - Netflix Instance Performance Analysis Requirements-HD
Box Weather Station Open source tools for MySQL performance and monitoring - Gavin Towey (Box, Inc)
GC Tuning Confessions Of A Performance Engineer by Monica Beckwith
GOTO 2012 • Mythbusting Modern Hardware to Gain 'Mechanical Sympathy' • Martin Thompson
Ludicrous Speed Designing For Performance on the JVM by Cliff Moon
Martin Thompson (keynote) – Adventures with concurrent programming in Java
Martin Thompson — Adventures with concurrent programming in Java A quest for predictable latency
Metrics Workshop at LISA13 - Part 11 - Statistics & Visualizations
Stop the Guessing Performance Methodologies for Production Systems
DBA
Monitorama PDX 2016 - Tammy Butow - Database Monitoring at Dropbox-HD
Box Weather Station Open source tools for MySQL performance and monitoring - Gavin Towey (Box, Inc)
Best practices for MySQL High Availability - Colin Charles (SkySQL Ab_MariaDB Foundation)
Database reliability engineering, modernizing the DBA role - Laine Campbell (Pythian)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs for databases - Charity Majors (Honeycomb)
InnoDB_ Status, Architecture, and Latest Enhancements - Calvin Sun (42 mins)
Need for Speed Getting MySQL Query Tuning Right the First Time
O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011 Baron Schwartz, Causes of Downtime in MySQL
Resilience
Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems- Operating At The Edge Of Failure - Richard Cook
What, Where And When Is Risk In System Design - Johan Bergstrom
Application Resilience Engineering and Operations at Netflix - Ben Christensen
Application Resilience Engineering and Operations at Netflix with Hystrix
Architectural Patterns of Resilient Distributed Systems by Ines Sombra
The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing by Stephen Asbury
Tomasz Nurkiewicz — Hystrix – managing failures in distributed systems - YouTube
Velocity 2012 - Mike Christian, 'Frying Squirrels and Unspun Gyros'
Post-mortem Facilitation
PostMortem Facilitation Theory and Practice of New View Debriefings - John Allspaw
How to Run a Post-Mortem With Humans (Not Robots) - Dan Milstein
Velocity Culture - Advanced Postmortem Fu and Human Error 101 - John Allspaw
