Deeper Windows Platform Debugging with Xperf (Perfmon on Steroids) [Podcast]

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Care of our friends over at Run As Radio, Jeff Stokes talks with Richard Campbell about Xperf, which is part of a suite of tools called the Windows Performance Analysis Toolkit (WPT). WPT digs into Windows where PerfMon leaves off by using Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to see exactly how applications are behaving, even during bootup and shutdown.  Hear about how and when Microsoft Premier Field Engineers use this tool to help clients understand and debug various client and server performance scenarios.

Download or listen to the podcast (30 minutes) here:  

Xperf podcast featuring Jeff Stokes, PFE