Brendan GreggInterview
Senior performance architect (Netflix)
Adapted from Brendan Gregg's interview on Uses This, published 15 July 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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With that I use CH Products rudder pedals, the Saitek throttle quadrant, and Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick.
All of my personal computers may, via VirtualBox and EC2, be consolidated to run from a single 13-inch MacBook Air, which would be great.
These days, often with a 0.5mm Uni-ball Kuru Toga mechanical pencil, which auto-rotates the lead to keep it sharp.
Communication
I'm logged into IRC 24x7, using irssi in a screen session, an approach I've been using for over ten years.
Productivity
Browser
Coding & Development
It has some performance tools on it I was writing in PowerShell.
For word processing, I do a lot of my writing in the vim text editor.
For shell scripts, I like to use ksh93, but generally stick to ksh88 functionality.
Design
Media
I'm Brendan Gregg, I'm a senior performance architect at Netflix, and do large scale computer performance design, analysis, and tuning.
Usually SIDPLAY playing HVSC, and a noisy keyboard program (I've alternated between versions I write myself, and 3rd party ones).
Other
One of my favorite laptops is a pink Acer Aspire One, with a 9-inch display, a 1.60 GHz Intel Atom processor, running Windows XP.
Microsoft Flight Simulator+ 1 other
My only other Windows laptop, a Compaq, is for Microsoft Flight Simulator.