Adam Leventhal (programmer)

Summary

Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the United States) is an American software engineer, and one of the three authors of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time.[1] Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments.[2] Adam joined the Solaris kernel development team after graduating cum laude 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's Technology Innovation Awards contest by a panel of judges representing industry as well as research and academic institutions.[3] A year after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company.[4] He served as Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016.[5]

Adam H Leventhal
Born1979
EducationB.Sc. Brown University
OccupationSoftware Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
Known forDTrace
Websitedtrace.org/blogs/ahl/

References edit

  1. ^ "LinuxWorld - Speaker Bios". linuxworldexpo.com. Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  2. ^ "O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17–20 October 2005 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands". oreillynet.com.
  3. ^ Totty, Michael (11 September 2006). "The Winners Are... - WSJ.com". WSJ.com.
  4. ^ "Oracle loses another DTrace creator". H Online. 19 August 2010.
  5. ^ "Delphix appoints new CEO – but hasn't filled vacant CTO spot". The Register. 16 April 2016.

Articles edit

  • Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro and Adam H. Leventhal (June 2004). Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems. Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
  • Leventhal, Adam (July 2008). "Flash Storage Memory". Communications of the ACM. 51 (7). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery: 47–51. doi:10.1145/1364782.1364796.
  • Leventhal, Adam (January 2010). "Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond". Communications of the ACM. 53 (1). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery: 58–63. doi:10.1145/1629175.1629194.
  • Leventhal, Adam (May 2013). "A File System All Its Own". Communications of the ACM. 56 (5). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery: 64–67. doi:10.1145/2447976.2447991. S2CID 689738. Retrieved 2013-04-26.

External links edit

  • Adam Leventhal's blog on dtrace.org
  • Adam Leventhal's blog from Sun, now hosted by Oracle
  • Open Solaris Community
  • The Scoble Show interviews DTrace's creators
  • Interview with Adam Leventhal in the San Francisco Chronicle
  • A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system