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   Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 22:20:41 JST Bryan Cantrill

   Two decades ago today, DTrace integrated into the operating system. Much has changed in the last 20 years -- but one thing has remained true: we ourselves still use it on a daily basis. With your forgiveness, a short thread... 1/

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     Nik (nikclayton@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 22:20:38 JST Nik

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     • Adnan 🦙

     @adnan @bcantrill Absolutely. Back in the day Sun ran a contest, "Try before you buy". Get a machine (an Ultra 60, IIRC), for 60 days shipped to you free.

     Blog about something interesting you did with it, enter the contest, and maybe win the machine.

     I instrumented Sendmail with DTrace, evaluating different queuing strategies (along with a comparison of Solaris and FreeBSD on the machine). Found a sendmail bug along the way, and won the contest.

     https://nikclayton.wordpress.com/2006/07/04/raison-detre/

     Thanks Bryan

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     Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 22:20:40 JST Adnan 🦙

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     • Nik

     @bcantrill @nikclayton

     dtrace seemed like magic when it was introduced. I felt so empowered debugging issues without source code. I think I even managed to solve a few bugs.

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     Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 03:15:28 JST Bryan Cantrill

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     First, to take you back to 2003, read the mail we sent out after we landed in the gate: 2/ http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/houston.txt

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     Seth Faxon (sfaxon@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 03:24:49 JST Seth Faxon

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     • Adam Leventhal

     @bcantrill @ahl thought of the podcast when I saw this little creeper at a Lowe’s a few days ago.

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     Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 03:24:50 JST Bryan Cantrill

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     • Adam Leventhal

     That day continues to be memorable; @ahl and I talked about it on a recent episode of Oxide and Friends. 4/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3qZJBfHI0Y&t=988s

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     Bryan Cantrill (bcantrill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 03:24:51 JST Bryan Cantrill

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     I reminisced a bit after the 5th anniversary (15 years ago!), describing in particular the harrowing day before we integrated. 3/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/09/03/happy-5th-birthday-dtrace/