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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. Comments ().

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well. But there's another factor at play: jobs are also migrating from both Solaris and Linux to cloud jobs instead, specifically AWS. I suspect at some point there'll be more jobs supporting the AWS cloud than there will be supporting Linux.