Second conference preview - Bryan Cantrill

[Steve Landers]

This is the second in a series of previews of AUUG 2005 - The
Conference for Unix, Linux and Open Source Professionals.

This week we are highlighting guest speaker Bryan Cantrill.

Bryan is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Kernel Development
Group at Sun Microsystems. His interests include dynamic software
instrumentation, postmortem diagnosability, real-time kernel
implementation and microprocessor architecture.

Over his career Bryan has done work in many kernel subsystems.
Most recently, he was part of the team that designed and implemented
DTrace, a facility for systemic dynamic instrumentation of Solaris
The DTrace team won the Sun 2004 Chairman's Award for Innovation,
the InfoWorld 2005 Innovators Award, and the high praise of SysAdmin
magazine, which hailed DTrace as a brilliant piece of work.

Bryan will be presenting a plenary session on OpenSolaris and DTrace.

He will also be presenting a half-day tutorial on Solaris 10 Dynamic
tracing (DTrace) and Containers (which allow you to virtualise your
Solaris OS)

For more details on AUUG 2005 visit http://www.auug.org.au

Please note that the conference will have a wireless and wired
network available for attendees.

I look forward to seeing you at AUUG 2005!