In the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time on the DTrace book: copy editing, managing the review process, and (ongoing) marketing – keep an eye out for video! Also provided care and feeding and a quiet place to work for one of its authors, Brendan Gregg, shown above. Brendan and co-author Jim… Continue reading How the DTrace Book Got Done
Tag: SmartOS
Why Film Engineers?
In the last three and a half years, working for Sun Microsystems and now Oracle, I have produced over 300 video assets, ranging in length from 10 minutes to 3 hours. Most of this material is software engineers talking about deeply technical topics. By YouTube standards, our audience isn’t large: my videos have had a… Continue reading Why Film Engineers?
Performance: Experimentation
Brendan Gregg and Roch Bourbonnais share the thought process they use to troubleshoot system performance problems. You might also like: Metrics Workshop at LISA13
Performance: The “Not a Problem” Problem
Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, and Roch Bourbonnais discuss a type of performance issue that’s very difficult to troubleshoot: the problem that isn’t actually a problem. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan You might also like: Metrics Workshop at LISA13
Performance Instrumentation Counters
download part 1 for iPod download part 2 for iPod An informal discussion among Roch Bourbonnais, Brendan Gregg, and Jim Mauro. Some context from Brendan here. You might also like: No related posts.