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Book Review: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD by Alex Blewitt Posted on Aug 03, 2011 This book is written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, both expert users in DTrace and the Solaris Internals from Prentice Hall. It covers the key features of the DTrace environment, the D language that is used to write the scripts used to provide answers to questions regarding the performance of the system under question.

Interviews about DTrace

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Operating Node.js in Production, with Bryan Cantrill by Bryan Cantrill Posted on Mar 08, 2012 Bryan talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms.

Presentations about DTrace

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Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications by Bertrand Delsart Posted on Oct 22, 2008 In this presentation from QCon London 2008, Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, Determinism and NoHeapRealtimeThreads, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, deadline miss handlers, event-driven requests with deadlines, reducing context switches, and benefits of RT Java and the RT Garbage collector.