Brendan Gregg on Visualizations for Performance Analysis from Lisa 2010

Last week, Brendan “The Shouting Guy” Gregg dropped by the LISA 2010 conference in San Jose to hold forth on how using heatmaps and other visualization tools can help spot problems and improve systems. Learn all about the mysteries of the “rainbow pteradactyl” and more with his Visualizations for Performance Analysis (and More) [PDF] slides.

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