Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Hubspot could take advantage of advanced AI and ML capabilities provided by Amazon Lex, without having to code the algorithms. Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot CTO and Founder, tells us that Amazon Lex enabled sophisticated natural language processing capabilities on GrowthBot to provide a more intuitive UI for customers.

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