There is only one way to describe dtrace.conf(08) - sick.
The software developer talent present at this conference (at a mere 70 or so folks) has got to be the highest concentration of insanely gifted develepor talent ever assembled. When you have presenters talking about pte's, TLB's. CR3's, VMM's, and traps and the majority of the audience is not only engaged, but experts in the field - you have a conference at the next level.
I am not just talking about MacOS X or FreeBSD here. DTrace works great for Solaris versions prior to Solaris 10 as well. In fact, it works great for Linux and Windows too.
So, I will be at dtrace.conf(08) on March 14, 2008. I can't express how excited I am that this conference will be taking place. For over 6 years now, I have spent almost every hour of every business day using DTrace to look at applications. It will be quite refreshing to have a a room full of like minded individuals who are all about DTrace.
Okay, maybe not totally meaningless, but the way that many people use the metric certainly is meaningless. This is especially apparent when it comes to what some believe is a black art - Capacity Planning. This ties back to my first blog entry when I spoke of how often simple upgrades go horribly wrong.
So now that the first boring blog entry is out of the way, I think it is time to get to the fun stuff. I will try and highlight as many customer success stories as possible, but NDA's make it non-trivial.
I had a bit of a false start in the blogosphere, but this time is for real. I will do my best to routinely blog about Solaris, DTrace, performance, and whatever else moves me.
