简介：views on software from bryan cantrill's deck chair

原站：http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/

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累计：53 篇（自 2007-09-04 起）

更新：约12篇/年，最后更新571 天前

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Good-bye, Sun

in februrary 1996, i came out to sun microsystems to interview for a job knowing only two things: that i wanted to do operating systems kernel development -- and that i didn't particularly want to work for sun. i was right on the first count, but knew i was wrong on the second just moments into my first conversation with jeff. he was emphatic that i shou... (314 天前)

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Turning the corner

it's a little hard to believe that it's been only fifteen months since we shipped our first product. it's been a hell of a ride; there is nothing as exhilarating nor as exhausting as having a newly developed product that is both intricate and wildly popular. especially in the domain of enterprise storage -- where perfection is not just the standard but (... (314 天前)

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John Birrell

it is with a heavy heart that i announce that we in the dtrace community have lost one of our own: the indomitable john birrell, who ported dtrace to freebsd, suffered a stroke and passed away on friday, november 20, 2009.we on team dtrace knew john to be a remarkably talented and determined software engineer. as those who have attempted ports can attes... (314 天前)

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Queue, CACM, and the rebirth of the ACM

as i have mentioned before (if in passing), i sit on the editorial advisory board of acm queue, acm's flagship publication for practitioners. in the past year, queue has undergone a significant transformation, and now finds itself at the vanguard of a much broader shift within the acm -- one that i confess to once thinking impossible.my story with respe... (314 天前)

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Moore's Outlaws

My blog post eulogizing SPEC SFS has elicited quite a bit of reaction, much of it from researchers and industry observers who have drawn similar conclusions. While these responses were very positive, my polemic garnered a different reaction from SPEC SFS stalwart NetApp, where, in his response defending SPEC SFS, my former colleague Mike Eisler concocted... (314 天前)

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Eulogy for a benchmark

I come to bury SPEC SFS, not to praise it.When we at Fishworks set out, our goal was to build a product that would disrupt the enterprise NAS market with revolutionary price/performance. Based on the economics of Sun's server business, it was easy to know that we would deliver on the price half of that promise, but the performance half promised to be mo... (314 天前)

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The Hunter becomes the Hunted

I recently came into a copy of Dave Hitz's new book How to Castrate a Bull. A full review is to come, but I couldn't wait to serve up one delicious bit of irony. Among the book's many unintentionally fascinating artifacts is NetApp's original business plan, dated January 16, 1992. In that plan, NetApp's proposed differentiators are high availability, eas... (314 天前)

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