Metrics Workshop at LISA13

At USENIX LISA`13, Brendan Gregg led a Metrics Workshop, along with Narayan Desai, Kent Skaar, Theo Schlossnagle, and Caskey Dickson. “This was an opportunity for many industry professionals to discuss problems with performance metrics and monitoring, and to propose and discuss solutions.” More details from Brendan here. I filmed the day, above is a playlist of… Continue reading Metrics Workshop at LISA13

Simple Live Streaming with Wirecast

Some months ago, I became concerned that my trusty old Canon Vixia tape-based videocamera might be getting to the end of its lifespan. Replacing the camera actually meant replacing my entire video streaming setup, because there’s been a generational change in most of the components. I eventually ended up with this new kit: Equipment Needed… Continue reading Simple Live Streaming with Wirecast

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