Entries tagged with analysis tools - Channel 9

David Grant and Ryan Kivett: !Analyze - Automatic Root Cause Analysis

Charles — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:33:00 GMT

!Analyze is an automatic root cause analysis tool for software failures. For years, it has provided insight to engineers both inside and outside of Microsoft. It is a key enabling technology behind numerous higher-level feedback systems, including Windows Error Reporting and Watson.

!Analyze runs millions of times each day, producing actionable results from reliability telemetry data sent to Microsoft. Ordinary debugging tools report the file and function where a failure ended. !Analyze pinpoints where the failure started.

How does it work, exactly? What's the story behind !Analyze?

Meet two of the Software Developers behind !Analyze, David Grant and Ryan Kivett. They share with us how !Analyze works, it's history and provide a glimpse into it's potential future.Tune in.

Great job, !Analyze team!

TechFest - Lie Lu and Frank Seide - Music Steering Project

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:25:03 GMT

The Music Steering Project is a software project that analyzes audio content to dynamically build a playlists of similar music (similar to Pandora). This enables you to easily discover new artists and songs, a problem I've personally had with a Zune subscription. It also enables you to set the mood of music you want to listen to and have the software automatically build you a playlist based on your mood.

Gabriel Torok: PreEmptive Software

Charles — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:21:27 GMT

I caught up with Gabriel Torok, President of PreEmptive Software (you all know DotFuscator, right? That's PreEmptive's baby...) at TechEd 2007 (Yeah, this is coming to you late, but the video was shot by pros and pros take time to deliver pro stuff. I think it turned out great! Thanks, pros!)

Here we talk about how PreEmptive's IL refactoring and anlaytics technology works.

Enjoy.
C

Dimension Security in SQL Server Analysis Services

Philo589 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:13:58 GMT

This was from a request by a customer...
A huge benefit of SQL Server Analysis Services is that just as accessing and manipulating data is more straightforward and oriented to the business, security is also easier to align with business needs.

In this video I walk through how straightforward it is to use roles in Analysis Services to determine what data a user can and cannot see. Very easy point-and-click, no code necessary.

Byron Cook: Inside Terminator

Charles — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:24:00 GMT

A few months ago, I interviewed Byron Cook, a researcher at MSR Cambridge, about his work on Terminator, which is a proof-based analysis tool used for proving that good things will eventually happen in unmanaged code paths. That is, it's a very good thing for code to stop executing eventually otherwise system hangs occur (drivers are the number one cause of system hangs and other undesirable system-wide problems).

Terminator is designed to help developers find bugs in their code that cause non-terminating execution. Many of you provided feedback after the last interview that Byron should have gone a bit deeper into the technology, including whiteboarding proofs. Well, he was recently in Redmond and agreed to be the next participant in Going Deep.

Here we dig into the details of Terminator on the whiteboard and even see a demo of Terminator running over some DDK (Driver Development Kit) sample C code.

Fasten your seat belts. We do jump head first into the rabbit hole.

Enjoy!

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