What Brendan Gregg thinks about infrastructure

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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3 Aug 2025

Our readingA new performance engineering team can typically halve a company's infrastructure spend within its first couple of years.

Their wordsA new performance team can likely find enough optimizations to halve infrastructure spend in their first couple of years, even for companies that have been using commercial performance or observability tools.

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