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Bryan Cantrill

DTrace; Oxide; "Fork Yeah!" management essays

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, building rack-scale cloud computers with open-source firmware. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he co-invented DTrace, the dynamic production-tracing framework later adopted by macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux. Widely followed for candid essays and talks on engineering management culture and the ethics of open-source software.

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