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I'm Glenn Fiedler and welcome to Más Bandwidth, my new blog at the intersection of game network programming and scalable backend engineering. What's this new blog about? Games with thousands of players. Virtual worlds. Performance in virtual spaces to an audience of millions. The Metaverse (no, not THAT metaverse, t...

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up. It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. Th...