Dtrace Review

Why HN readers recommended it

HN regards it as a gem of a technical talk that tackles a fundamental debugging problem and shows a new technology solving it.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GoogleTalksArchive

Topic

dynamic tracing with dtrace

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I'm partial to Bryan Cantrill's Dtrace talk since it tackles a fundamental problem in software engineering and shows how to solve it using a new technology. The talk is more than 5 years old now, but sadly still as relevant as ever. [VIDEO]

• Do you mean you prefer Linux over Windows? If so, then watch this talk: [VIDEO] Now you will prefer Solaris/BSD to Linux :)

• A few of Bryan Cantrill's talks have already been mentioned here, but this one about DTrace, from 2007, is a gem: [VIDEO] I especially like the part in the middle where he tells the story of how a an awful GNOME applet was killing a …