Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan Cantrill·2011·USENIXLISA·1 hr 15 minCantrill tells the story of OpenSolaris, the Oracle acquisition, and how the kernel engineers behind ZFS, DTrace, and Zones carried the work forward into illumos.
Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind
Bryan Cantrill·2017·GOTOCantrill on the discipline of debugging production systems in real time — staying analytical when the pager is screaming and the business is bleeding.
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.
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.
Observability: It's Not Just an Ops Thing
Charity Majors·2018Majors on why instrumenting your services is a developer responsibility — and why high-cardinality, event-based data beats dashboards of pre-aggregated metrics.
The Future of Programming
"Uncle" Bob Martin·2016·Expert TalksBob Martin walks through 60 years of programming history and argues that almost nothing has actually changed.