FISL13: The USE Method

In July, Bryan Cantrill, Deirdré Straughan and I spoke at FISL, one of the world’s largest open software conferences, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. I had a great time.

My talk introduced the USE Method: a simple strategy for performing a complete check of system performance health, identifying common bottlenecks and errors. This methodology can be used early in a performance investigation to quickly identify the most severe system performance issues, and is suitable for both enterprise and cloud computing environments. I’ve previously posted USE Method-derived checklists for Solaris- and Linux-based systems.

The video and slides are below, and a PDF version of the slides are here.

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Posted on September 21, 2012 at 2:40 pm by Brendan Gregg · Permalink
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