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date: '2012-05-08T17:00:34.000Z'
category: video
title: 'Bryan Cantrill: Instrumenting the Real Time Web'
layout: blog-post
author: Isaac Schlueter
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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.

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F5jCXdTYJYc" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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