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Bryan Cantrill's 2007 Google Tech Talk on DTrace, showing how dynamic tracing improves debugging of both development and live production systems. It includes a vivid war story about tracking down a problem on a Sun Ray server.

Why HN recommends it: HN regards it as a gem of a technical talk that tackles a fundamental debugging problem and shows a new technology solving it.

“I'm partial to Bryan Cantrill's Dtrace talk since it tackles a fundamental problem in software engineering and shows how to solve it using a new technology.” Read on HN ↗