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Remembering Freeman Dyson

O'Reilly

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.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

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. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. DTraceToolkit v0.96 tools (2006). I was living in Sydney, Australia.

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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

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. This is pretty common and usually goes unnoticed as the flame graph looks ok at first glance. Yes, times have indeed changed.

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An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

However, I was doing training and consulting for Sun, helping their customers with system administration and performance. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions. DTraceToolkit v0.96 I was living in Sydney, Australia.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

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. Drupal has a rich and extendable permission system.

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