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Solaris 10 DTrace Code Camps, Webcast & Hands on labs

In the last few months I've been presenting DTrace to many developers and System Admins around the world. Its been a great to talk about this very cool technology. The feedback from the developer community has been wonderful. Code Camps are an excellent format to present DTrace. 30 to a 100 developers get together. Each of them have a Solaris 10 desktops. We spend the whole day talking about DTrace and Zones . The first hour is dedicated to Solaris 10 introduction. We then have 4 hours of DTrace. Developers get to ask questions and I get to write D-scripts to show them how to answer such questions live. Then the rest of the day is spent talking about Zones and SMF. Developers sometimes bring in their applications on their Solaris 10 laptop. These lucky once get a taste of how DTrace can be used to better understand their application. Some where between all this we get good lunch at Sun's expense and snacks and ofcourse lots of coffee. If you did not get a chance to attend one of these camps, you can atleast look at the presentation.

Please provide feedback on these slides. There is always room for improvment. By the way I've been busy with other forms of presentation as well. If you are new to DTrace you may find my DTrace webcast very useful. Actualy over 2500 people have viewed it already. Again your feedback is very welcome. If you are more of the "lem'me me try for myself" type of person you may find the Hands on Labs more to your liking. Just download the zip file. Unzip it and point your browser to the index.html file. There are step by step instructions with lots of screen shots to help you walk through DTrace basics. All you need is a Solaris 10 system. If you do not have one just it. Solaris 10 run on a boat load of hardware. Chances are your systems is on the supported list .

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Posted at 06:49PM Nov 04, 2005 by angelo in DTrace  |  Comments[0]