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Ask Me…

Maybe you can’t quite read it in this photo; the button on Brendan’s shirt says “Ask me about Solaris 11″. Yes, I work with a bunch of comedians!

DTrace in the Non-Global Zone

Bryan Cantrill speaking at the BayLISA meetup at Joyent, August 16, 2012. Slides.

Introduction to SmartOS

Bryan Cantrill opens the BayLISA meetup at Joyent, August 16, 2012. Slides. Thanks to our sponsor Telefonica for the beers!

Using Video to Communicate Technology

Deirdré Straughan’s talk at FISL, July 2012. Slides here.

Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: Doing It Wrong

Bryan Cantrill speaks at FISL, July 26, 2012. Slides here.

Solaris History: Crystal Springs and Telegraph Hill Conference Rooms

    Mike’s office – the development of MDB (in Solaris 7). A simplifying assumption about DTrace.    

Solaris History: Muir Woods

“I learned a lot from reviewing Bonwick’s code in this room.”

Video: illumos Key Technologies

This is just a snippet from SVLUG‘s Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel on current open source Unix systems, in which Bryan Cantrill was a speaker, along with Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing representing Linux, Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc. for FreeBSD, and Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for [...]

Video: Instrumenting the Real-Time Web: Node.js, DTrace and the Robinson Projection

Bryan Cantrill, VP of Engineering at Joyent, describe his team’s experiences developing DTrace-based system visualization of Node.js in an early production environment: the 2010 Node Knockout programmingcontest. He describes the challenges of instrumenting a distributed, dynamic, highly virtualized system — and what their experiences taught them about the problem, the technologies used to tackle it, [...]

Video: And It All Went Horribly Wrong: Debugging Production Systems

Bryan Cantrill discusses debugging production systems using post-mortem debugging and dynamic instrumentation, with a bit of history and an introduction to useful debugging tools, at QCon 2011.