Category Archives: my life in tech

Joyent Retrospective

Once again, I find it’s time for a retrospective of the videos I’ve done in the last few years. The people and events featured in this include:

I tried to fit in every Joyent employee (current or past) who has been in front of my camera. If I missed you, it was unintentional!

You can download the video here.

Statistics & Visualizations: Two Lightning Talks by Brendan Gregg

At USENIX LISA 13, Brendan Gregg led a full-day, interactive workshop on metrics, with attendees from across the tech industry. Tutorial material was provided by Brendan, along with Caskey Dickson of Google and Theo Schlossnagle of OmniTI. There were also group exercises and presentations. I filmed it all, and we’ll be rolling it out to everyone soon.

At the end of the day, Brendan gave two quick summary talks on statistics and visualizations, presented here as a teaser.

The full playlist from the workshop is here.

OpenZFS Developer Summit

Spent the day filming and streaming this. The full playlist is here, below are links to each individual talk.

Systems Performance Book Videos

While Brendan was writing his new book Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud, we filmed some short videos about why he wanted to write a systems performance book, how hard it was to get started, and about a few chapters as he completed them…

Then life became busy and insane (partly because he was writing a book, but not only), and we didn’t shoot anything at all for months. And then, finally, the book was finished.

Many months after that, when the book was finally in print, we launched it at a meetup of BayLISA, where Brendan gave a long talk on all of it, with in-depth look at Chapter 6: CPUs.

The book is also available from Informitin paper, ebook, or a bundle of both!

Marketing Your Tech Talent

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to present this talk at the Monktoberfest in Portland, Maine.

Slide deck with notes – Marketing Your Tech Talent

Some very kind words about the talk from Joe Brockmeier here.

I’m just gonna brag a little here:

“Datashits” was a Freudian slip. Really. I promise.

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