2004 Innovation Performance Systems 
O'Reilly
MARCH 4, 2020
When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. “I visited him recently,” Danny wrote, “and we got into a conversation about self-organizing systems. I can’t resist adding to the outpouring of appreciation and love that has ensued.
Adrian Cockcroft
JUNE 21, 2022
Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.
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Brendan Gregg
JUNE 3, 2021
I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance.
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. I'm sure this delivered large performance improvements and I wouldn't try arguing against it.
Brendan Gregg
JUNE 3, 2021
I was an independent performance consultant and Sun Microsystems had just released DTrace, a tool that could instrument all software. This gave performance analysts like myself X-ray vision. However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today. Maintaining layouts became a particular pain point for static sites.
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