Josh Clulow

Guest Josh Clulow joins the podcast hosts, Bryan and Adam, to discuss the 20-year journey of DTrace. They reminisce about stress and deadlines during integration, reflect on the release of Solaris 9, and discuss the development process of DTrace. They also touch on naming conventions, improvements in boot time, and the positive impact of their technology. Other topics include developing meaningful instrumentation for Java, using DTrace for storage performance analysis, and the significance of CVEs and USDT in tracing.

George Cozma and Jordan Ranous join Adam and Bryan to discuss AMD's MI300 announcement and its implications to accelerated compute. They highlight the MI300A, which features CPU and GPU chiplets in the same package. The guests also discuss AMD's approach to hardware and software challenges, adoption of liquid cooling, challenges of training large models, and predictions for the future.

Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik join the hosts to discuss Helios, the OS that runs on the Oxide Rack. They touch on topics such as illumos, distros, Rust Tier 2 support, and Bryan's sleeper bug from 1991. They also explore the challenges of software distribution, developing software for Windows with Rust, memory usage, upstreaming code, and exploring computer architecture. The chapter descriptions include discussions on books, the Unix wars, the Helios sled, and database options.