Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the
United States
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) is an American
software engineer
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, and one of the three authors of
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework originally created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time.
Originally developed for Solaris, it has since been released unde ...
, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 (
Sun Microsystems
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' latest
OS) which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time. Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments. Adam joined the
Solaris kernel
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Computing
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* Kernel (image processing), a matrix used for image convolution
* Compute kernel, in GPGPU programming
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development team after graduating
cum laude
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from
Brown University in 2001 with his
B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science. In 2006, Adam and his DTrace colleagues were chosen Gold winners in
The Wall Street Journal
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's Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions. A year after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company. He served as
Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016.
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External links
Adam Leventhal's blog on dtrace.orgAdam Leventhal's blog from Sun, now hosted by OracleOpen Solaris CommunityThe Scoble Show interviews DTrace's creatorsInterview with Adam Leventhal in the San Francisco ChronicleA ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
Open source people
Free software programmers
Living people
Solaris people
Brown University alumni
1979 births
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