DTrace screencast : Angelo's Soapbox

Tuesday Jul 15, 2008

DTrace screencast

Its been a while since I blogged here. So wanted to do blog some good content. I work in the Open Source team at Sun and I'm focusing on Emerging Markets. Its a pretty exciting work and I'm enjoying very bit of it.

Recently I came across an open source project called the "Jing Project". Jing makes creating screen casts a breeze. I've been playing with it and created a few screen casts to demonstrate DTrace. If you have not seen DTrace in action here is your chance.

To make it easy for download and viewing the screen cast has been split into 5 parts. Easy on the bandwidth and easy on the eyes. So without much more ado here are the screen casts. Enjoy and provide feedback.

DTrace screen casts

Name Description

Introductory Presentation 01-Intro.swf

Observing System calls 02-demo-syscall1.swf

System call arguments 03-demo-syscall2.swf

Library calls and arguments 04-demo-libc.swf

DTrace and JavaScript 05-demo-javascript.swf

You may need a flash player to view these screen casts.

I plan to do DTrace tutorials in the next series of screen casts. Enjoy and don't forget to provide feedback.

Posted at 10:22PM Jul 15, 2008 by angelo in DTrace | Comments[3]

Comments:

Great set of screen casts. Going to have a go with dtrace when I get a chance. Particularly keen to see DTrace use with Apache and/or PHP.

Posted by Alex Forrow on July 16, 2008 at 10:45 AM EST #

Angelo,

What a great Introduction to the use and power of DTrace. Please keep creating more in this series.

I may use them with a customer to help them see the power and uses of DTrace.

Posted by Dave McD on July 16, 2008 at 03:40 PM EST #

Great screencast.

Posted by vincent liu on July 21, 2008 at 10:23 PM EST #