I’m surprised I haven’t seen this linked yet, but Bryan Cantrill of dtrace, Sun, lawnmower, Joyent, etc, fame gave an amazing talk for Monktoberfest 2016, title

I’m surprised I haven’t seen this linked yet, but Bryan Cantrill of dtrace, Sun, lawnmower, Joyent, etc, fame gave an amazing talk for Monktoberfest 2016, titled “Oral Tradition in Software Engineering”, which features The Story of Mel [1]. Highly recommend checking it out — there are loads of little gems and stories like this throughout. All of his other presentations are great too and definitely worth a listen if you like this sort of thing [2]. A couple of my favorites are “Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of Illumos” [3] and “Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind” [4]. [1]: https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?t=644 https://youtu.be/4PaWFYm0kEw?t=644 [2]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/ [3]: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc [4]: https://youtu.be/30jNsCVLpAE https://youtu.be/30jNsCVLpAE