Twenty one years ago, DTrace was integrated into the operating system. My any measure, the software is now fully-grown: it is open source, has been ported to several operating systems, and is still in daily use. In this session, we’ll reflect back on DTrace at 21: the stuff we got right, the stuff we figured out — and the ways in which we got lucky.
Bryan Cantrill is a software engineer who has spent a quarter of a century at the hardware/software interface. He is the co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, which is endeavoring to build a rack-scale computer for the post-cloud era. Prior to Oxide he spent nearly a decade at Joyent, a cloud computing pioneer; prior to Joyent, he spent fourteen years at Sun Microsystems, a now-defunct computer company that Bryan's nine-year-old daughter apparently thought was a brewery.
