About the Authors

Brendan Gregg is a performance specialist at Joyent and is known worldwide in the field of DTrace. Brendan created and developed the DTraceToolkit and is the coauthor of Solaris Performance and Tools (McDougall, Mauro, and Gregg, 2006) as well as numerous articles about DTrace. He was previously the performance lead for the Sun/Oracle ZFS storage appliance and a software developer on the Fishworks advanced development team at Sun, where he worked with the three creators of DTrace. He has also worked as a system administrator, performance consultant, and instructor, and he has taught DTrace worldwide including workshops that he authored. His software achievements include creating the DTrace IP, TCP, and UDP providers; the DTrace ...

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