Extended Windows Memory Dump Analysis: Using and Writing WinDbg Extensions, Database and Event Stream Processing, Data Science and Visualization, Mach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781912636518)

The book contains the full Software Diagnostics Services training transcript with 25 hands-on exercises. This training course extends pattern-oriented analysis introduced in Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Accelerated .NET Core Memory Dump Analysis, and Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures courses with:

• Surveying the current landscape of WinDbg extensions with analysis pattern mappings
• Writing WinDbg extensions in C, C++, and Rust (new)
• Connecting WinDbg to NoSQL databases
• Connecting WinDbg to streaming and log processing platforms
• Querying and visualizing WinDbg output data
• Using Data Science, Machine Learning, and Gen AI for diagnostics and postmortem debugging (new)

The new edition of the training updates existing exercises and includes new ones.

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of WinDbg. Working knowledge of C, C++, or Rust is optional (required only for some exercises). Other concepts are explained when necessary.

Audience: Software developers, software maintenance engineers, escalation engineers, quality assurance engineers, security and vulnerability researchers, malware and memory forensics analysts who want to build memory analysis pipelines.