The operating system is dead. Long live the operating system. If the future is network applications, the past is the operating system. It is being pushed inexorably down the stack. Down to the level of the router and the switch. With it will go the general purpose server. If developers don’t need operating systems, they [...]
Read More»As you might have heard and likely read in the back-and-forth blogging of Dave Hitz (a NetApp founder) and Jonathan Schwartz (CEO of Sun Microsystems), the two are at each other’s throats. Well not really at each other’s throats: NetApp went nuclear and Sun hit back even harder.
Basically NetApp says that Sun’s ZFS steals it’s [...]
We are looking forward to installing Leopard on our Macintoshes here at Joyent this weekend. We talked in the recent episode of ps pipe grep about the effort at Sun to ensure Solaris is a good operating system for laptop computers. (Cricket sounds).
But seriously, now that OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is shipping (today), with [...]
Ben, Jason and David discuss OpenSolaris Developer Summit, Solaris on Laptops, Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard, Taco Sunday, and 800-GOOG-411.
ps pipe grep.
I’m serving the podcast from my BingoDisk disk.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.
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Ben, Jason and David discuss Berlin and Paris, the Solaris kernel versus userland, BrandZ, startup experience, various movies, the iPhone (a fuller “review” is in the works).
ps pipe grep.
I’m serving the podcast from my BingoDisk disk.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.
Note: feeds may take some time to update. If you [...]
Jason Hoffman and I were chatting about the recent patent granted to Google for what is being characterized as a “data center in a box”. But if you dig into the patent, one reads:
…an interconnecting module to interconnect a plurality of the modular computing modules…
So is it Sun’s Blackbox (among other incumbents)? Or a network [...]
Read More»Here are the slides from my panel with Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services at the Graphing Social Patterns conference. We were surprised we are more than competitive to Amazon Web Services for real world web applications that actually have actual users (i.e. not just a proof-of-concept). In the slides, we profile a top 50 [...]
Read More»Even though there aren’t DTrace probes for MySQL released yet, we can still get useful information from MySQL. DTrace has a pid provider which allows us to get into any function the program is executing and see it’s arguments. The only drawback is you have to go digging around in the source code to find [...]
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