Adam Leventhal (programmer)
Adam H Leventhal | |
|---|---|
 Leventhal, November 2008 | |
| Born | 1979 |
| Education | B.Sc. Brown University |
| Occupation | Programmer |
| Employer | Delphix |
| Known for | DTrace |
| Website | http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/ |
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 (Sun Microsystems' latest OS) 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]
A colleague talking about Adam's departure from Oracle:
"Adam’s case is instructive: Adam is a brilliantly creative engineer — one with whom it was my pleasure to work closely over nearly a decade. Time and time again, I saw Adam not only come up with innovative solutions to tough problems, but run those innovations through the punishing gauntlet that separates idea from product. One does not replace an engineer like Adam; one can only hope to grow another. And given his nine years of experience at the company and in the guts of the system, one cannot expect to grow a replacement quickly — if at all. Oracle’s loss, however, is the community’s gain; I hope I’m not tipping his hand too much to say that Adam will continue to be deeply engaged in the system, leading a new generation of engineers — but this time within a larger community that spans multiple companies and interests."
References
- ^ "LinuxWorld - Speaker Bios". linuxworldexpo.com.
- ^ "O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17–20 October 2005 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands". oreillynet.com.
- ^ Totty, Michael (11 September 2006). "The Winners Are... - WSJ.com". WSJ.com.
- ^ "Oracle loses another DTrace creator". H Online. 19 August 2010.
Articles
- Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro and Adam H. Leventhal (2004). "Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems". Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
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- 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. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
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External links
- 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
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