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

Adrian Cockcroft

I also learned a lot about how to work directly with customers, when to shut up and let the sales guy drive the conversation, and generally how technology sales works. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). And namespaces, used for Linux containers, are also a relevant technology.