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Hyperscalers have long been doing infrastructure-wide profiling (or "Google-Wide Profiling" as the first whitepaper on the topic calls it [1]). This tech allows Google to reduce infra-resource usage by multiple percentage points per quarter.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/google-wide-profiling-a-continu...

"Software that runs at scale" is a very different story than "Software that is shipped with a distro", unfortunately.

Very few distro packages can even define what a normal workload looks like.

That's precisely why it's nice for users to be able to collect these profiles themselves.

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