title: Bryan Cantrill: Instrumenting the Real Time Web
author: Isaac Schlueter
date: Tue May 08 2012 10:00:34 GMT-0700 (PDT)
status: publish
category: video
slug: bryan-cantrill-instrumenting-the-real-time-web

Bryan Cantrill, VP of Engineering at Joyent, describes the challenges of instrumenting a distributed, dynamic, highly virtualized system -- and what their experiences taught them about the problem, the technologies used to tackle it, and promising approaches.

This talk was given at Velocity Conf in 2011.

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