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Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

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  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2014 to 2017.
  • Presented by Bryan Cantrill, VP of Engineering at Joyent
  • Made by the vendor. The company whose product it covers made or sponsored it.
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Systems programmingDistributed systemsDatabase internalsOperating systemsScaling and large-scale architecture

Bryan Cantrill explains Joyent's Manta object storage system, sharing insights on ZFS history and the engineering behind bringing compute to data.

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What people say. Highly recommended for its entertaining delivery, industry history, and insights into ZFS and reliable systems design.

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Bryan Cantrill says it best, I think1: "If you had to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of WWII but was an oracle customer, there's a very good chance you would actually explain the Nazis as an Oracle allegory." There are more choice quotes in someone else's HN comment about Bryan Cantrill on Oracle.2 I highly recommend any talk you can find of Bryan Cantrill. A wonderful mix of industry history and great delivery. 1: link to this video 2: link
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If anyone's interested in a presentation introduction to Manta (presumably similar to the one you saw), you may want to check out my FutureStack presentation from last year.1 And if you have 90 minutes to kill and are in the mood for the true origin story of Manta, see my video from NYC DevOps in January.2 1 link 2 link to this video
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…g to Oracle there's some critical understanding that I have left on the table … in fact as I have said before I emphatically believe that if you have to explain the Nazis to someone who had never heard of World War 2 but was an Oracle customer there's a very good chance that you would explain the Nazis in Oracle allegory. — also Brian Cantrill ( link to this video )…
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