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Monday Oct 26, 2009

A DTrace Quick Start Guide

Alta Elsta & I just completed the DTrace Quick Start Guide: Observing Native and Web Applications in Production mini-book. If you need a hardcopy let me know but if you are like me and would love to save a few trees you can click on the picture below to download the pdf version.

We talk about why DTrace is so different from any observation tools you may have seen. We cover basic DTrace concepts and some details on writing d-scripts. We also have a lot of sample scripts. Sections on using DTrace to observe MySQL and Drupal are included.

The examples from the book have also been added to a wiki page for easier copy & paste.

(click the image to open PDF)

ZFS Webcast - Changing the way you look at storage

Last week Mark Niedzielski from OurStage and I did a webcast about ZFS. We cover some very basics of ZFS. There is good info on its storage management capabilities and filesystem and volume capabilities. We even look at hybrid storage, benefits of snapshots and some tuning hints as well.

If you missed the webcast here is a link to get to the recording & Slide deck.

Slides - CLICK HERE
Recording - CLICK HERE

Link to Other webinars - CLICK HERE

Please let me know if you need more details on ZFS or on these webinars



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