Solaris History: The Marker Game
The things engineers invent to unwind at the office… Bryan Cantrill demonstrates the Marker Game that he and Jeff Bonwick used to play in a conference room in MPK 17. Special guest appearance by...
View ArticleDTrace and ZBall
Another bit of Solaris history with Bryan Cantrill.The post DTrace and ZBall appeared first on Countries Beginning with I. Related posts: Visualizing DTrace: Sun Storage 7000 Analytics dtrace.conf 2012...
View Articledtrace.conf 2012 State of the Union
Bryan Cantrill at dtrace.conf 2012The post dtrace.conf 2012 State of the Union appeared first on Countries Beginning with I. Related posts: dtrace.conf 2012 – Setting the Agenda Stuff I Do: dtrace.conf...
View Articledtrace.conf 2012 – Setting the Agenda
Bryan Cantrill at dtrace.conf 2012The post dtrace.conf 2012 – Setting the Agenda appeared first on Countries Beginning with I. Related posts: dtrace.conf 2012 State of the Union Stuff I Do: dtrace.conf...
View ArticleStuff I Do: dtrace.conf 2012
^ above: the famous DTrace laser pony designed by substack. Why a pony? Read here. This week was eventful for me professionally. I organized and ran dtrace.conf 2012, a highly technical conference, for...
View ArticleFishworks and Me
(Part 3 of Resistance is Futile: The Oracle Acquisition) Note: This slight detour in what is rapidly becoming a long series on the last years of Sun is another very personal angle on a particular piece...
View ArticleCorporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: Doing It Wrong
Bryan Cantrill speaks at FISL, July 26, 2012. Slides here.The post Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns: Doing It Wrong appeared first on Countries Beginning with I. Related posts: Finding Bugs in Open...
View ArticleUsing Video to Communicate Technology
For once, there’s video of me, talking about what I do and why I do it that way.The post Using Video to Communicate Technology appeared first on Countries Beginning with I. Related posts: FISL...
View ArticleBayLISA at Joyent
A playlist including: Introduction to SmartOS SmartOS: An SA Primer Adding Per-Thread Caching to libumem SmartOS ZFS Architecture DTrace in the Non-Global ZoneThe post BayLISA at Joyent appeared first...
View ArticleTechnical Videos
This is an up-to-date listing of nearly 400 technical videos I have been involved in, one way or another, in the six years I’ve been working with Solaris, illumos, SmartOS, and related people,...
View ArticleThe 3rd Annual Solaris Family Reunion
I have been meaning for some time to write a follow-up to my series about my experience of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems. This yet-to-be-written piece, titled “The Sun Diaspora”, may someday...
View Articledtrace.conf 2012
In April, 2012, I organized and ran the second-ever DTrace conference (the first had been held in 2008). I found the venue and sponsors, did all the logistics, live streamed and filmed the entire day’s...
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