Adam Leventhal (programmer)
{{Short description|American software engineer}}
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| birth_date = 1979
| birth_place = United States
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| known_for = DTrace
| education = Brown University (ScB)
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| occupation = Software Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
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| website = {{URL|dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/}}
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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.{{cite web
| url = http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/conference/bio//CMONYA00BDP0
| title = LinuxWorld - Speaker Bios
| publisher = linuxworldexpo.com
| access-date = 2008-01-11
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061016011326/http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/conference/bio/CMONYA00BDP0
| archive-date = 2006-10-16
| url-status = dead
}} Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace has since been used to find opportunities for performance improvements in production environments.{{cite web
| url = http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/eurooscon/view/e_sess/7933
| title = O'Reilly European Open Source Convention - 17–20 October 2005 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
| publisher = oreillynet.com
}} 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.{{cite news
| url = https://www.wsj.com/public/article/SB115755300770755096-Puh3Kr2L9dGEhvkWyO94UivIRwA_20070910.html
| title = The Winners Are... - WSJ.com
| publisher = WSJ.com
| first=Michael
| last=Totty
| date=11 September 2006
}} A year after Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corp, Leventhal announced he was leaving the company.{{cite news
| url = http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-loses-another-DTrace-creator-1061836.html
| title = Oracle loses another DTrace creator
| publisher = H Online
| date=19 August 2010
}} He served as Chief Technology Officer at Delphix from 2010 to 2016.{{cite news
| url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/19/delphix_appoints_new_ceo/
| title = Delphix appoints new CEO – but hasn't filled vacant CTO spot
| publisher = The Register
| date = 16 April 2016
}}
References
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Articles
- {{cite conference
| author = Bryan M. Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro and Adam H. Leventhal
| date = June 2004
| title = Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
| conference = Proceedings of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
| url = https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix04/tech/general/cantrill.html}}
- {{cite journal
| last = Leventhal
| first = Adam
| title = Flash Storage Memory
| journal = Communications of the ACM
| volume = 51
| issue = 7
| pages = 47–51
| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery
| location = New York, NY
| date = July 2008
| doi = 10.1145/1364782.1364796
| id =
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{cite journal
| last = Leventhal
| first = Adam
| title = Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
| journal = Communications of the ACM
| volume = 53
| issue =1
| pages = 58–63
| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery
| location = New York, NY
| date = January 2010
| doi = 10.1145/1629175.1629194
| id =
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{cite journal
| last = Leventhal
| first = Adam
| title = A File System All Its Own
| journal = Communications of the ACM
| volume = 56
| issue =5
| pages = 64–67
| publisher = Association for Computing Machinery
| location = New York, NY
| date = May 2013
| url = http://mags.acm.org/communications/may_2013#pg66
| doi = 10.1145/2447976.2447991
| s2cid = 689738
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| accessdate = 2013-04-26| url-access = subscription
}}
External links
- [http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/ Adam Leventhal's blog on dtrace.org]
- [http://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/ Adam Leventhal's blog from Sun, now hosted by Oracle]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030080147/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/dtrace/ Open Solaris Community]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071215151026/http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1557/for-developers-a-conversation-with-suns-dtrace-team The Scoble Show interviews DTrace's creators]
- [http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Keeping-fit-with-Ultimate-Frisbee-3913860.php/ Interview with Adam Leventhal in the San Francisco Chronicle]
- [https://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/a-zfs-developers-analysis-of-the-good-and-bad-in-apples-new-apfs-file-system/ A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system]
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