Technical Videos

It hasn’t been quite a year since I published a list of my technical videos, but a lot has changed since then. This is an up-to-date listing of technical videos I have been involved in, one way or another, in the seven years I’ve been working with Solaris, illumos, SmartOS, and related people, technologies, and companies.… Continue reading Technical Videos

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 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 contain deep thoughts about how dispersing all that amazing Sun engineering talent may prove to have been a watershed event for the entire… Continue reading The 3rd Annual Solaris Family Reunion

Videos from the illumos Meetup, January 2012

ZFS Feature Flags A new feature being introduced in illumos, presented by Chris Siden of Delphix at the illumos user group meetup sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Backwards Compatibility Testing with ztest Christopher Siden at the illumos user group meeting sponsored by the Joyent Cloud, January 2012. ZFS Code Comments Discussion at the illumos… Continue reading Videos from the illumos Meetup, January 2012