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>"Over a decade ago, I worked on a technology to which a competitor paid the highest possible compliment: they tried to implement their own knockoff." Could so
by bogomipz 8y ago
>"Over a decade ago, I worked on a technology to which a competitor paid the highest possible compliment: they tried to implement their own knockoff."
Could someone share who the competitor and what the knock off was?
- dralley 8y agoContainers maybe?
- bogomipz 8y agoThanks, right he's a Sun Microsystems alumn. Two very brilliant projects(dtrace and zfs.) Cheers.
- IronBacon 8y agoLooking at the blog name I would say DTrace on Solaris (Sun) and SystemTap on Linux.
- AceJohnny2 8y agoGood find. Indeed, looks like Graydon did work on SystemTap in that timeframe: https://www.openhub.net/p/systemtap/contributors?page=4&query=&sort=name&time_span= https://www.openhub.net/p/systemtap/contributors?page=4&quer...
- wscott 8y agoI was assuming zfs and btrfs