Videos tagged with DTrace




Ruby & Scalable Architectures

Ruby & Scalable Architectures

Posted in Conferences, Companies, Development, Frameworks

Three companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue. Teams from Joyent and Twitter and DTrace developer Bryan Cantrill from Sun joined forces to spend a day looking in detail at how Ruby processes behave within a Rails production environment. The purpose of the collaboration was to use the dynam...

Tags: Techtalks, Google, Conferences, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Frameworks, OS, High Performance, Scalability, engEDU, Education, ...


Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications

Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications

Posted in Conferences, Development

Summary In this presentation from QCon London 2008, Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, Determinism and NoHeapRealtimeThreads, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, deadline miss handlers, event-driven requests with deadlines, reducing context switches, and benefits of RT Java and the RT Garbage collector....

Tags: Conferences, Java, High Performance, InfoQ, QCon, QCon London 2008, Real Time, GarbageCollection, Real Time Java, DTrace