Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind
Bryan Cantrill·2017·GOTO·53 minCantrill on the discipline of debugging production systems in real time — staying analytical when the pager is screaming and the business is bleeding.
Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan Cantrill·2011·USENIXLISACantrill tells the story of OpenSolaris, the Oracle acquisition, and how the kernel engineers behind ZFS, DTrace, and Zones carried the work forward into illumos.
Zebras All the Way Down
Bryan Cantrill·2017·UptimeCantrill on the engineering of the data path — the unglamorous, decade-long work of building software that holds onto your bytes when everything else is on fire.
Platform as a Reflection of Values
Bryan Cantrill·2017·Node SummitWhy every platform — language, OS, runtime — encodes a particular ordering of competing virtues, and why a good fit is really an alignment of values.
Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
Bryan Cantrill·2016·MonktoberfestCantrill on how the craft is actually transmitted — stories, mentors, war anecdotes — and what gets lost when we pretend software is purely a written discipline.
When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!)
Sam Newman, Martin Fowler·2020·GOTONewman and Fowler talk through the cases where microservices earn their keep — and the much larger set where they don't.
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir
Sasa Juric·2019·GOTOSasa Juric on what actually makes the BEAM special — isolated processes, message passing, supervision — and how those primitives produce systems that stay up while the world burns around them.