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

Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg

At USENIX LISA 13, Brendan Gregg led a full-day, interactive workshop on metrics, with attendees from across the tech industry. Tutorial material was provided by Brendan, along with Caskey Dickson of Google and Theo Schlossnagle of OmniTI. There were also group exercises and presentations. I filmed it all, and we’ll be rolling it out to everyone soon.… Continue reading Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg

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

Reviews of “Systems Performance”

Buy the book! Brendan is reticent about blowing his own horn, so I gathered this list for him! Hacker News: scott_s 7 hours ago | link This is brilliant – I just spent 15 minutes browsing his site, and I am seriously considering purchasing his book.I’m recently realized that I have built up a lot of intuition… Continue reading Reviews of “Systems Performance”