Thursday June 30, 2005
Thursday June 30, 2005 As of last night when the Pavillion at JavaOne closed, we had DTraced 16 applications with 15 of those getting performance increases of between 5% and 280%.
To put this achievement in perspective you really had to be there, some of the challenges we faced were: 1)We had one person doing 95% of the work, including installing the apps, getting them running and doing the DTracing. 2)The pavillion was only open for ~8 hours every day. 3)None of the Sun people involved were Java experts. 4)The majority of the apps had never been run on Solaris before. 5)The booth right next to us subscribed to the "employ an idiot with a loudspeaker to shout about your product once every ten minutes" school of marketing (this might not sound too bad, but after 2 days it starts to get very annoying).
The good news is we had a lot of happy customers and got to show off DTrace in the best possible way - solving real world applications. The applications themselves were surprisingly diverse, everything from a CDMA network interference modeling app to an XML parser and something that was representative of a military app (the customer wasn't allowed to talk about that one).
It was great to see and hear so many Java developers asking about Solaris 10, we handed out literally hundreds of Solaris 10 DVD's and the latest reports from the DTrace presentation going on today indicate that there were more than 900 people in attendance. That's over 10% of the total attendees at JavaOne this year.
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