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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. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

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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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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. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. But I'd rather the cost be zero, of course!

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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. I'd seen some amazing technologies from Sun, but I'd never seen a developer on a world tour. This was an important innovation by Sun Microsystems, a US-based multinational company worth billions.

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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. That's where we built many pioneering networking technologies, our next-generation software for customer support, and the technology behind our compute service, Amazon EC2. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. These desktop applications incremented the tooling an inch closer to the modern Jamstack content management systems of today.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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.

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