Interview – Dave Cheney
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An onstage interview names work on Juju at Canonical, a small Go agent for server infrastructure, and a team that grows from five or six to nearly 30 developers. It describes debugging as a Thanksgiving 2012 marathon to rewrite networking timeouts to use deadlines, fixing broken net timeouts without changing APIs. It describes a prototype SSH client that uses channels excessively but provokes others to produce a robust replacement, showing what actually ships.
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