All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012. Comments ().

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product. He hasn’t changed.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. Most of the changes since rc7 are actually networking fixes, the bulk of them to various drivers. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well.

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