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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. I also learned how marketing worked, and began to build my presentation and training skills as I was sent around the world by Sun to teach workshops and speak at events.

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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). At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data. Amazon Lex. After the launch of the Alexa Skill Kit (ASK), customers loved the ability to build voice bots or skills for Alexa. Amazon Polly.

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