Prodfiler, with Thomas Dullien - a podcast by Adam Glick and Craig Box

Prodfiler is a new tool that provides fleet-wide full-system continuous profiling. It is in some ways the second act of its co-creator Thomas Dullien, who is an internationally-renowned reverse engineer and vulnerability researcher under the name Halvar Flake. Thomas joins us to discuss his career, what you should profile in a distributed system, and why you can’t sell something with a negative cost.

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Links from the interview

• Thomas Dullien/Halvar Flake


• Mathematik, with a K


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• Vicky the Viking TV show


• Assembly Language Masterclass


• GEOS copy protection by Michael Stiel


• Time travel debugging


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• optimyze.cloud’s original business model


• Introducing Prodfiler


• Profiling


• The Datacenter As A Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines


• Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
  
  
  
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• The mystery of Kubelet eating CPU and IOPS


• Fortran Web Framework: it’s not irrelevant, really!


• Halvar Flake on Twitter

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