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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 really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company.

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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.