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Comment by dmazin | Hacker News Reader

In case anyone needs to know, the shouter in question is none other than Brendan Gregg (of flame graph, eBPF, and Systems Performance fame). And the guy who took the video is Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer, DTrace, and Joyent.

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HN readers may also recognize Byran Cantrill from his famous rant about Oracle, which is frequently cited here: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=1980

>Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

Absolutely incredible!

I have trained myself so that every time I see "Oracle", I mentally translate it as "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht".

I keep picturing Larry pushing a lawn mower.

For Spanish speaking HNers: try reading Oracle in reverse :)

It'd be el caro (the expensive one), in the same line as the yatch thing.

I hope to one day have the terrible misfortune of being acquired by Oracle.

Brilliant. Thanks.

I think Brendan is still peeved that this video is his most viewed video on Youtube even after all this time.

Yes, whilst he has given so many other valuable talks around systems profiling, etc..

I firmly believe that this [1] still should be hanging in every system administrators bedroom around.

https://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/linux_observability_tools....

I do have it hanging in my office rather than my bedroom. I wouldn't recommend putting it in the bedroom unless one's spouse is also a sysadmin.

Maybe he should instrument his talks to see how much shouting there is in them, and check how that correlates with view count.

This is a flame graph I'd be interested in seeing from him on April Fool's Day

I think mcelog/rasdaemon deserve a mention there in the RAM section?

He shouldn't be too upset, views and video quality only have a very rough correlation if at all. It shouldn't be surprising that his most accessible video is his most watched one.

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