Opening remarks at dtrace.conf(16) in 2016. Video to come!

1. DTrace
dtrace.conf(16)
CTO
bryan@joyent.com
Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill

2. dtrace.conf(16)
• Quadrennial (!) DTrace unconference started in 2008
• ~100 attendees from:
• ~45 companies
• ~1 VC Entrepreneur-in-Residence
• Twitter: #dtraceconf
• Thanks to our sponsors, Joyent — and the FIPP!
• Huge thanks to Ryan Wilson, Brittany Berry and Jenny Miller from
Joyent

3. dtrace.conf prehistory

4. DTrace since 2012

5. DTrace since 2012
Same haircut

6. DTrace since 2012
Same glasses?

7. DTrace since 2012
WTF?!

8. DTrace since 2012

9. DTrace since 2012: Core
• Added new ways of representing aggregated data via “agghist,”
“aggpack,” and “aggzoom” options
• Added new json() subroutine
• Added DTrace userland CTF support
• Added the new (on-by-default!) “temporal” option
• Added print() support for translated types
• Added support for fds[], curpsinfo, sched and proc providers
in a zone container

10. DTrace since 2012: Platforms
• FreeBSD implemented the pid provider in 9.0 and, as of 9.2,
enabled DTrace by default!
• NetBSD added DTrace support — including support for ARM!
• Linux port of DTrace largely completed by Oracle — but keeping
the user-level portion proprietary has limited its impact

11. DTrace in 2016 and beyond
• Distributed systems are ubiquitous and tracing in distributed
systems has improved tremendously; how can DTrace help?
• Instrumenting multi-processes applications via the pid provider is
still painful; can we improve?
• The rise (resurrection?) of statically compiled languages like Go
and Rust presents new opportunity — and new challenges
• DTrace and serverless computing?
• User-level postmortem tracing?
• Anti-roadmap: Dynamic translators?

12. dtrace.conf(16)!

13. Welcome, newbies!

14. Welcome, Old Schoolers!

15. Welcome, Trolls!