Get Involved! Part 1

OpenSolaris Developer Conference, Praguew June 25-27, 2008 Keynote: Jim Grisanzio: Governing OpenSolaris: Get Involved! Thursday June 26, 10:00 – 11:00 You might also like: No related posts.

Publish Yourself on CD-ROM

In 1993, my first (and so far only) book, Publish Yourself on CD-ROM (Random House), finally hit the shelves after over a year of work. My then-boss Fabrizio Caffarelli was listed as the first author (and got most of the royalties), and taught me much of the technical content (I did read the standards docs myself – almost… Continue reading Publish Yourself on CD-ROM

Whole Lotta Videos

Countries Beginning with I: The Trailer This is not all the videos I’ve made to date (for both work and fun), but … it’s 531 of them, some as old as 10 years (recovered from various sources). From one of my YouTube accounts, in reverse chronological order of posting. Running Without a ZFS Root Pool… Continue reading Whole Lotta Videos

Developers Rule, OK?

I warmly recommend a new book by RedMonk co-founder Stephen O’Grady called The New Kingmakers, “about how developers took over the world”. If you’re a non-tech person who wants to understand what I do in my professional life, this will help. I’m not a software developer (nor even play one on television), but a lot of my job… Continue reading Developers Rule, OK?

ZFS Performance Analysis and Tools

Brendan Gregg’s talk at ZFS Day (an event I also organized and ran). The performance of the file system, or disks, is often the target of blame, especially in multi-tenant cloud environments. At Joyent we deploy a public cloud on ZFS-based systems, and frequently investigate performance with a wide variety of applications in growing environments.… Continue reading ZFS Performance Analysis and Tools