How BTrace Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jaroslav Bachorik (@yardus) about:

programming a paper computer, Atari 130, building a drum machine for Atari, the Programming Pearls book, building a sound sampler, building a game for Atari, getting Amiga 1200, inspired by Paint Shop Pro, building software in Norway in Visual Basic, the most famous castle in Slovakia - Bojnice Castle, starting a software company, building cluster software in Manchester with Java Applets, using the jahia content server, enjoying Apache Tapestry, joining Sun MIcrosystems NetBeans team, working on the NetBeans profiler, jvisualvm and NetBeans profiler, dtrace and btrace, how btrace started, btrace is used by Alibaba, joining the serviceability JDK team, joining Marcus Hirt at Datadog, building a continuous profiler

Jaroslav Bachorik on twitter: @yardus