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Blogging through the decades
Nov 16, 2024
Remembering Charles Beeler
Nov 12, 2024
Reflections on Founder Mode
Sep 2, 2024
Engineering a culture
Mar 31, 2024
Moore’s scofflaws
Feb 20, 2024
What punch cards teach us about AI risk
Nov 26, 2023
Is it worse for John Fisher?
Nov 18, 2023
The Cloud Computer
Oct 26, 2023
Homebrew social networking
Nov 27, 2022
Twitter, when the wall came down
Nov 5, 2022
Hubris and Humility
Nov 30, 2021
Twitter Spaces, a few weeks in
May 2, 2021
Compensation as a reflection of values
Mar 3, 2021
Rust after the honeymoon
Oct 11, 2020
The singular urgency of Ava DuVernay’s 13th
Jun 2, 2020
RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020
Feb 3, 2020
The soul of a new computer company
Dec 2, 2019
Ex-Joyeur
Jul 31, 2019
Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine
Feb 10, 2019
A EULA in FOSS clothing?
Dec 16, 2018
Open source confronts its midlife crisis
Dec 14, 2018
Assessing software engineering candidates
Oct 5, 2018
Should KubeCon be double-blind?
Oct 3, 2018
The relative performance of C and Rust
Sep 28, 2018
Falling in love with Rust
Sep 18, 2018
Talks I have given, conversations I have had
Feb 3, 2018
The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
Sep 4, 2017
Reflections on Systems We Love
Dec 21, 2016
Submitting to Systems We Love
Sep 30, 2016
Systems We Love
Sep 26, 2016
Hacked by a bug?
Sep 13, 2016
dtrace.conf(16) wrap-up
Jul 29, 2016
Joyent and Samsung: Thoughts after the close
Jun 29, 2016
Samsung acquires Joyent: A CTO’s perspective
Jun 15, 2016
Unikernels are unfit for production
Jan 22, 2016
Bringing clarity to containers
Dec 17, 2015
Requests for discussion
Sep 16, 2015
Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy
Sep 3, 2015
The foundation of cloud-native computing
Jul 21, 2015
Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”
Mar 24, 2015
SmartDataCenter and the merits of being opinionated
Feb 5, 2015
Predicteria 2015
Jan 6, 2015
2014 in review: Docker rising
Jan 2, 2015
SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source
Nov 3, 2014
Broadening node.js contributions
Jun 11, 2014
From VP of Engineering to CTO
Apr 15, 2014
The Power of a Pronoun
Nov 30, 2013
agghist, aggzoom and aggpack
Nov 10, 2013
Happy 10th Birthday, DTrace!
Sep 3, 2013
Serving up disaster porn with Manta
Jul 23, 2013
Manta: From revelation to product
Jun 25, 2013
A systems software double-header: Surge and GOTO
Oct 8, 2012
Post-revolutionary open source
Aug 1, 2012
DTrace in the zone
Jun 7, 2012
Debugging node.js memory leaks
May 5, 2012
Standing up SmartDataCenter
Sep 15, 2011
KVM on illumos
Aug 15, 2011
In defense of intrapreneurialism
Jul 12, 2011
When magic collides
Mar 9, 2011
Log/linear quantizations in DTrace
Feb 8, 2011
The DIRT on JSConf.eu and Surge
Oct 2, 2010
A physician’s son
Sep 24, 2010
DTrace, node.js and the Robinson Projection
Aug 30, 2010
The liberation of OpenSolaris
Aug 19, 2010
The node.js demographic
Aug 11, 2010
OpenSolaris and the power to fork
Aug 3, 2010
Hello Joyent!
Jul 30, 2010
Good-bye, Sun
Jul 25, 2010
Turning the corner
Mar 10, 2010
John Birrell
Nov 26, 2009
Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM
May 14, 2009
Moore’s Outlaws
Feb 19, 2009
Eulogy for a benchmark
Feb 1, 2009
The Hunter becomes the Hunted
Jan 21, 2009
Catching disk latency in the act
Dec 31, 2008
On Modalities and Misadventures
Nov 16, 2008
Fishworks: Now it can be told
Nov 9, 2008
Concurrency’s Shysters
Nov 3, 2008
Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace!
Sep 3, 2008
DTrace and the Palisades Interstate Parkway
Jul 29, 2008
Revisiting the Intel 432
Jul 18, 2008
DTrace on Linux
Jun 30, 2008
A Tribute to Jim Gray
May 31, 2008
dtrace.conf(08)
Mar 16, 2008
Announcing dtrace.conf
Dec 18, 2007
Boom/bust cycles
Dec 5, 2007
On Dreaming in Code
Nov 11, 2007
DTrace on QNX!
Nov 8, 2007
DTrace, Leopard, and the business of open source
Oct 29, 2007
DTrace on ONTAP?
Sep 6, 2007
DTrace at Google
Aug 21, 2007
Caught on camera
Aug 2, 2007
On the beauty in Beautiful Code
Jul 28, 2007
Beautiful Code
Jul 11, 2007
DTrace on the Scoble Show
Jul 3, 2007
Alexander Morgan Gaffikin Cantrill
Jun 23, 2007
DTrace at Joyent
May 20, 2007
The inculcation of systems thinking
May 6, 2007
Ian Murdock joins Sun!
Mar 19, 2007
DTrace on Rails, reprise
Oct 12, 2006
DTrace on AIX?
Aug 17, 2006
DTrace on Mac OS X!
Aug 7, 2006
DTrace on FreeBSD, update
May 25, 2006
DTrace on Rails
May 1, 2006
DTrace for Linux
Dec 13, 2005
Welcome to ZFS!
Nov 16, 2005
Your Debian fell into my OpenSolaris!
Nov 7, 2005
Man, myth, legend
Sep 13, 2005
TR35
Sep 9, 2005
DTrace and Ruby
Aug 21, 2005
DTrace on FreeBSD?
Aug 16, 2005
Ubuntu and DTrace break bread
Aug 11, 2005
DTrace and PHP, demonstrated
Aug 5, 2005
DTrace and PHP
Aug 3, 2005
Party in our room
Aug 2, 2005
DTrace at OSCON
Jul 31, 2005
Using DTrace to debug NTP
Jul 27, 2005
DTrace Safety
Jul 19, 2005
Using DTrace to understand GNOME
Jul 11, 2005
DTrace at JavaOne
Jun 27, 2005
Still more blog sifting...
Jun 25, 2005
Yet more blog sifting...
Jun 20, 2005
More blog sifting
Jun 17, 2005
DTrace and OpenSolaris at BayLISA
Jun 16, 2005
Sifting through the blogs...
Jun 15, 2005
OpenSolaris Sewer Tour
Jun 14, 2005
DTrace and Python
May 10, 2005
Your Java fell into my DTrace!
Apr 18, 2005
On Reverse Engineering
Apr 15, 2005
DTrace is not a security risk!
Mar 2, 2005
DTrace Tips, Tricks and Gotchas
Feb 28, 2005
Solaris 10 Revealed
Jan 25, 2005
The Economics of Software, redux
Dec 16, 2004
Only 17 DTracing days left!
Dec 15, 2004
From Russia, with love?
Dec 1, 2004
UNIX, circa 1984
Nov 24, 2004
Jack on Solaris 10
Nov 23, 2004
Solaris 10 Launch
Nov 18, 2004
DTrace update
Oct 10, 2004
Tobin Cormac Gaffikin Cantrill
Sep 28, 2004
The Economics of Software
Aug 28, 2004
DTrace on LKML
Aug 20, 2004
Demo’ing DTrace
Aug 5, 2004
Demo Perils
Jul 26, 2004
The DTrace integration
Jul 25, 2004
DTrace vs. DProbes/LTT
Jul 17, 2004
Whither systems research?
Jul 13, 2004
Whither USENIX? (Part II)
Jul 8, 2004
Ron Popeil?
Jul 8, 2004
Whither USENIX?
Jul 6, 2004
Beating the Odds
Jul 3, 2004
BOF’d at USENIX
Jun 30, 2004
The de-commoditization of the OS
Jun 28, 2004
Whining pays off?
Jun 20, 2004
Be careful what you ask for...
Jun 18, 2004
The Early Adopters
Jun 17, 2004
More DTrace blogging
Jun 17, 2004
Open source! (P.S. DTrace, Zones, ZFS, etc.)
Jun 16, 2004
Open source, again!
Jun 16, 2004
I’ll take a “y”, Pat...
Jun 16, 2004
DTrace chat tomorrow
Jun 15, 2004
Some prehistory
Jun 14, 2004