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Stuff I Do: dtrace.conf 2012

April 8, 2012

This week was eventful for me professionally. I organized and ran dtrace.conf 2012, a highly technical conference, for my employer and others of the tech community that works with this technology. Yes, this is the same DTrace as in that book that I edited in 2010. I also filmed it and ran a live video [...]

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Solaris Videos

February 2, 2012

123 videos I did for Sun and later Oracle, plus a few later, can be found on my old YouTube channel.

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Videos from the illumos Meetup, January 2012

February 1, 2012

ZFS Feature Flags A new feature being introduced in illumos, presented by Chris Siden of Delphix at the illumos user group meetup sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Backwards Compatibility Testing with ztest Christopher Siden at the illumos user group meeting sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Code Comments Discussion at the illumos [...]

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Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor

January 30, 2012

Robert Mustacchi’s talk at SCALE 10x. An excellent introduction to what SmartOS is and why it’s better. Want to learn more? Come meet Robert at the Joyent Cloud Meetup/Office Hours Jan 31. 5-7 pm. Beer and pizza provided! 60 minutes (playlist of 5 parts), shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan slides

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Performance Analysis: new tools and concepts from the cloud

January 30, 2012

Brendan Gregg, Lead Performance Engineer, Joyent, speaks at SCALE 10x. full slide deck 4-part playlist, total 60 mins, shot and edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Mike Shapiro of Sun and Steve O’Grady of Redmonk

January 24, 2012

September, 2008 – filmed outside a bar in San Francisco.

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Solaris History: The Open Storage Revolution

January 24, 2012

Jeff Bonwick at SNIA SDC, Sept 2007. filmed and edited by Deirdré Straughan download (m4v)

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DTrace and ZBall

January 12, 2012

Another bit of Solaris history with Bryan Cantrill.

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Index of Videos

December 18, 2011

All my videos [to 2007] are listed here in reverse chronological order of the date they were shot, newest on top. To visit the related web page, click on the title. To download the video, right-click on the video filename and select “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”. Work in progress – there are [...]

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Solaris History: The Marker Game

December 1, 2011

The things engineers invent to unwind at the office… Bryan Cantrill demonstrates the Marker Game that he and Jeff Bonwick used to play in a conference room in MPK 17. Special guest appearance by Bonwick himself, the world Marker Game champion.

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Illumos Meetup Video

June 16, 2011

From last night’s meetup. Garrett D’Amore, Adam Leventhal and Bryan Cantrill discuss the past, present, and future of the Illumos operating system.

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node.js Community Event: Rough Cut Videos

March 3, 2011

Joyent hosted a node.js community event at our San Francisco offices the other evening, in which Ryan Dahl announced a new version of node.js, and Brendan Gregg showed some amazing stuff you can do with Joyent Cloud Analytics on your no.de hosted site to understand what’s going on in your node.js app. For more details on [...]

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The Faces of Sun

November 29, 2010

I’ve been meaning for a long time to make a video tribute to the amazing people of Sun Microsystems. It has been my honor and privilege to work with some of the finest minds in this industry (or any industry), many of whom I also got to film at Sun conferences and other events worldwide. [...]

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Solaris 11 Image Packaging System

November 24, 2010

Bart Smaalders at the Oracle Solaris Summit at LISA10. download slides, video part 1, part 2, part 3

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Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11 Express

November 22, 2010

Markus Flierl presents at the Oracle Solaris Summit at LISA10. download slides video  

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Oracle Solaris Developer Tools

November 19, 2010

Part 2 Vijay Tatkar BoF at LISA10. download slides, video part 1 part 2 filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Where’d BigAdmin and the Docs Go?

November 19, 2010

Part 2 Rick Ramsey and Janice Critchlow present at LISA10. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan download video part 1, part 2  

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DTrace BoF at LISA10

November 17, 2010

Part 2 download video part 1, part 2 Birds of a feather session with Jim Mauro and Brendan Gregg, authors of the forthcoming DTrace book. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Solaris 11 Packaging & Installation

November 16, 2010

Part 2 Birds of a feather session at LISA10 with Dave Miner, Bart Smaalders, and Dan Price. download video part 1, part 2 filmed and edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Solaris 11 Engineering Panel

November 15, 2010

Part 2 Birds of a feather session at LISA10, Q&A with a panel of distinguished Solaris engineers. download video part 1, part 2

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