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DTrace at 20

DTrace at 20

FromOxide and Friends


DTrace at 20

FromOxide and Friends

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Length:
124 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Bryan and Adam reminisce about the DTrace journey 20 years after first integrating the code into Solaris back in September 2003.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Josh Clulow.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Hungry Jack's
Bryan's other online dating profile

The Sun E10000 (E10k), the world's worst router
Leventhal's Conundrum
DTrace as Half-Life 3, eternal vaporware
More on SPARC, it's TLB, the %npc, and dtrace_fish from OxF May 2021

Solaris 9 was the completion of the Solaris 2.0 vision
DTrace Kernel Technical Discussion (2002)

Mr. Sparkle
Firefox? Mozilla? Firebird!
Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems, Usenix 2004
Graydon on DTrace in Rust
Rust USDT crate
DTrace on Windows
Adam's blog: DTrace on macOS
Adam's blog: DTrace for OEL
PSARC cases from 2003
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Released:
Sep 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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