Archive for the ‘Joyent’ Category

Fixing DTrace libdir dependency resolution

As a part of the work Bryan, Dave, Brendan, and I have been doing to instrument Node, Bryan wrote a translator file. One of the nice things about DTrace is that you can define the arguments to a probe to be a structure and simply access them like a C struct. The way that this [...]

Posted on February 18, 2011 at 4:42 pm by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Solving Problems with Cloud Analytics

This past Wednesday Brendan Gregg and Bryan Cantrill gave a presentation on the work that’s been going on at Joyent related to visualizing performance and how we’re using this to solve customer problems. This is based on the work that the the four of us (Bryan, Brendan, Dave and I) have been doing. You can [...]

Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:31 am by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Started at Joyent

I haven’t been sitting idly these past few weeks, I’ve skipped the frying pan and gone straight into the fire at Joyent!. At Joyent I’m joining a group of great engineers. I’ll be tackling the problem of Cloud Analytics with a familiar cast of engineers: Bryan Cantrill Brendan Gregg Dave Pacheco Things have been moving [...]

Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:15 pm by rm · Permalink · One Comment
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