At the beginning of my Monktoberfest talk on Marketing Your Tech Talent, I said that: “I have occasionally had a marketing title; it has never been a good fit.” This was an overstatement. In the course of my career, I have had several good experiences as part of or working with marketing teams, for example… Continue reading That Marketing Thing
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OpenZFS Developer Summit
Spent the day filming and streaming this. The full playlist is here, below are links to each individual talk. Matt Ahrens Intro Platform Panel: illumos (Chris Siden), FreeBSD, Linux (Brian Behlendorf), and OSX (Jurgen) Platform-independent code repository (Matt Ahrens) Storage Tiering (Boris Protopopov) Vendor Panel (all represented companies sharing their work) Community Planning (Karyn Ritter)… Continue reading OpenZFS Developer Summit
The Perf Book: Getting Started is the Hardest Part
Brendan’s frustrations getting the Systems Performance book started. Spoiler: the book did eventually get started, and finished. You can order the book from InformIT or Amazon. You might also like: No related posts.
Why a Systems Performance Book?
Using videos to promote books has become standard practice in the last few years, as Brendan Gregg and I were well aware while he was writing his latest. We’ve made many videos together, so we figured it would be easy to film a series of brief videos, say one per chapter, during the writing of… Continue reading Why a Systems Performance Book?
Marketing Your Tech Talent
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to present this talk at the Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine. Slide deck with notes – Marketing Your Tech Talent Some very kind words about the talk from Joe Brockmeier here. I’m just gonna brag a little here: Videoing the talks at #monktoberfest pic.twitter.com/p6XnDGDL2O — Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery) October… Continue reading Marketing Your Tech Talent