Leaving Intel
44 points by lalitm
44 points by lalitm
Re-enabling stack walking was such a fantastic endeavor. Sometimes performance work is social engineering
I wonder where Mr Gregg will land at next? There's still a Performance Engineer position open at Oxide Computer (damn I want that position!) which would definitely fit him, but my outsider impression is that his departure from the illumos and DTrace world was over both technical and interpersonal aspects. If that was the case, then a return to the "fold" would be somewhat less likely.
Why was that your impression? I imagine that the skills he developed in the Illumos/Solaris world simply transfer well to Linux, and the impact of his work is "automatically magnified" by changing the stack slightly
It's kind of like if you focused on Lua or Lisp for machine learning (and there are/were such projects). It's not a huge difference to use Python for machine learning, and it's more mainstream
Note: I deleted my original response as I had misread the very first word of your answer.
My impression mainly stems this HN comment by bgregg and the context around it. There are some quite strong words said about Solaris and illumos by bgregg, with a side of shade cast on Bryan Cantrill. In a response to a response, bcantrill then has some fairly strong words about listening to someone who has defined themselves so negatively and so rigidly. At no point do the two men here actually address one another; in one talk I put this as "bgregg and bcantrill studiously avoiding each other's eyes". This all smacks of interpersonal conflict, but the whole time bgregg's argument is basically that illumos is a technical dead that is not worth spending effort on, so there is undeniably a technical aspect at play as well
Ill get in line for wanting this position, sadly the competition is so hard that applying feels like a waste of time
Yeah, I think/feel I've already used up my number of "you may be a cultural fit for Oxide" applications and at this point I'm in the "nice of you to waste our time but you're not a fit" bucket :D
I didnt yet apply, but this does sadly confirm my bias
Absolutely do apply! Don't let some idiot on the Internet affect your actions.
The worst thing that can happen is that you're not chosen; that's no skin off your back, and you at least get the application out of it. Just writing it out is a great experience.
I believe that a strategy deck like the one mentioned could be useful in many companies. Usually it's just some nonsense passed from above, viewing the company like an army, not an engine.
Yeah, strategy decks like that can be really useful, but they will only be acted upon if people are bought into the need to change, and that this is the way to do it. if you don’t have that buy in from the right people then they just end up being a frustration.