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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Thomas Dullien/Halvar Flake
Mathematik, with a K
Stages of life vs. maths ability required, by Pearls of Raw Nerdism
Vicky the Viking TV show
Assembly Language Masterclass
GEOS copy protection by Michael Stiel
Time travel debugging
“German hacker denied entrance into US for Black Hat training”
Zynamics acquired by Google
- BinDiff
- BinNavi
Project Zero
“For whom?”, asked R Morris Sr.
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
- Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure and Jaeger
The mystery of Kubelet eating CPU and IOPS
Fortran Web Framework: it’s not irrelevant, really!
Halvar Flake on Twitter

Prodfiler, with Thomas Dullien

Kubernetes Podcast from Google