Scott Barron
EdgeCase

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Scott Barron was set to swear off computers forever and become a plumber when Rails was released. He immediately found salvation in the warm embrace of Ruby and has never looked back.

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11:45am Sunday, 06/01/2008
Everyday DTrace on OSX: A Guide to Using DTrace for Your Full Application Stack
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 Location: Portland Ballroom 253
Scott Barron (EdgeCase), Chad Humphries (Relevance, Inc.)
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Have you ever wanted to know why a part of your application is slow? How about how long that query takes? Wouldn't it be nice if you could get this type of information for ruby, rails, and the database server in one place? You can now with DTrace on OSX 10.5. We'll show you how to best use this tool-chain to debug, profile, and gather more information about your application. Read more.
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