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Should KubeCon be double-blind?
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The relative performance of C and Rust
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Falling in love with Rust
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Talks I have given, conversations I have had
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The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
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Reflections on Systems We Love
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Submitting to Systems We Love
September 30, 2016
Systems We Love
September 26, 2016
Hacked by a bug?
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dtrace.conf(16) wrap-up
July 29, 2016
Unikernels are unfit for production
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Bringing clarity to containers
December 17, 2015
Requests for discussion
September 16, 2015
Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy
September 3, 2015
The foundation of cloud-native computing
July 21, 2015
Triton: Docker and the "best of all worlds"
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SmartDataCenter and the merits of being opinionated
February 5, 2015
Predicteria 2015
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2014 in review: Docker rising
January 2, 2015
SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source
November 3, 2014
Broadening node.js contributions
June 11, 2014
From VP of Engineering to CTO
April 15, 2014
agghist, aggzoom and aggpack
November 10, 2013
Happy 10th Birthday, DTrace!
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Serving up disaster porn with Manta
July 23, 2013
Manta: From revelation to product
June 25, 2013
A systems software double-header: Surge and GOTO
October 8, 2012
Post-revolutionary open source
August 1, 2012
DTrace in the zone
June 7, 2012
Debugging node.js memory leaks
May 5, 2012
Standing up SmartDataCenter
September 15, 2011
KVM on illumos
August 15, 2011
In defense of intrapreneurialism
July 12, 2011
When magic collides
March 9, 2011
Log/linear quantizations in DTrace
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The DIRT on JSConf.eu and Surge
October 2, 2010
A physician's son
September 24, 2010
DTrace, node.js and the Robinson Projection
August 30, 2010
The liberation of OpenSolaris
August 19, 2010
The node.js demographic
August 11, 2010
OpenSolaris and the power to fork
August 3, 2010
Hello Joyent!
July 30, 2010
Good-bye, Sun
July 25, 2010
Turning the corner
March 10, 2010
John Birrell
November 26, 2009
Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM
May 15, 2009
Moore's Outlaws
February 19, 2009
Eulogy for a benchmark
February 2, 2009
The Hunter becomes the Hunted
January 22, 2009
Catching disk latency in the act
December 31, 2008
On Modalities and Misadventures
November 16, 2008
Fishworks: Now it can be told
November 10, 2008
Concurrency's Shysters
November 3, 2008
Happy 5th Birthday, DTrace!
September 3, 2008
DTrace and the Palisades Interstate Parkway
July 29, 2008
Revisiting the Intel 432
July 18, 2008
DTrace on Linux
June 30, 2008
A Tribute to Jim Gray
May 31, 2008
dtrace.conf(08)
March 16, 2008
Announcing dtrace.conf
December 18, 2007
Boom/bust cycles
December 5, 2007
On Dreaming in Code
November 11, 2007
DTrace on QNX!
November 8, 2007
DTrace, Leopard, and the business of open source
October 29, 2007
DTrace on ONTAP?
September 6, 2007
DTrace at Google
August 21, 2007
Caught on camera
August 2, 2007
On the beauty in Beautiful Code
July 28, 2007
Beautiful Code
July 11, 2007
DTrace on the Scoble Show
July 3, 2007
Alexander Morgan Gaffikin Cantrill
June 23, 2007
DTrace at Joyent
May 20, 2007
The inculcation of systems thinking
May 6, 2007
Ian Murdock joins Sun!
March 19, 2007
DTrace on Rails, reprise
October 12, 2006
DTrace on AIX?
August 17, 2006
DTrace on Mac OS X!
August 7, 2006
DTrace on FreeBSD, update
May 25, 2006
DTrace on Rails
May 1, 2006
DTrace for Linux
December 13, 2005
Welcome to ZFS!
November 16, 2005
Your Debian fell into my OpenSolaris!
November 7, 2005
Man, myth, legend
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DTrace and Ruby
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DTrace on FreeBSD?
August 16, 2005
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