Bryan Cantrill
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Rust, In Sickness & In Health | RustConf 2026 | 2026-09-08 |
A company built a rack-scale machine using Rust end-to-end, raising funds in 2019 and shipping hardware in 2023, and uses Dropshot for API servers, Progenitor… | ||
| DTrace at 21: Reflections on Fully-grown Software | P99 CONF 2024 | 2024-10-23 |
DTrace integrates into the OS on September 3, 2003 and after open sourcing in 2005 it is ported to macOS, FreeBSD, Linux and even Windows, remaining in daily… | ||
| Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom | GOTO Chicago 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Claim: social audio captures engineering wisdom by recording real-time conversations and publishing them as a podcast. The team uses Twitter Spaces → Discord… | ||
| The Hardware vs Software | Scale By the Bay 2021 | 2021-10-28 |
Debate centers on whether compute becomes a utility or stays decisive: panelists cite compute doubles every 3.4 months and MLPerf as the concrete meter of… | ||
| Hardware/Software Co-design: The Coming Golden Age | RailsConf 2021 | 2021-04-12 |
Argument: hardware and software must be co-designed because economics and capability are changing, not the topic. Moore’s Law decelerates economically while… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Will AI Kill Programming? | Scale By the Bay 2020 | 2020-11-12 |
The panel debates whether AI becomes as essential to software work as source control and CI, arguing specific claims and demos: proponents point to GPT-3… | ||
| Panel: Programming Languages in the Era of the Cloud | Scale By the Bay 2020 | 2020-11-12 |
Panel argues cloud choices hinge on concrete tradeoffs: Go wins for fast startup and tiny static binaries and cross-compilation; Rust wins for memory control… | ||
| Was He Wright All Along? Software After Moore's Law | Scale By The Bay 2019 | 2019-11-13 |
Argues that the historic gains attributed to Moore’s Law are better explained by Wright’s Law explains cost decline: cost per gate falls with cumulative… | ||
| Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Software growth since Andreessen’s 2011 prophecy produces concrete ethical failures: Facebook emotional manipulation of hundreds of thousands in 2012, Zenefits… | ||
| Thoughtful Software Engineering | Scale By The Bay 2018 | 2018-11-15 |
Panel argues concrete trade-offs and tools: microservices trade autonomy for lost leverage and added serialization/operational complexity; Scala trims features… | ||
| Rust and Other Interesting Things | Scale By The Bay 2018 | 2018-11-15 |
Recent experience shows Rust can beat hand‑optimized C on real system code by switching data structures and letting the compiler optimize memory layout… | ||
| Bryan Cantrill interviewed at Velocity 2011 | Velocity 2011 | 2011-06-14 |
Built a DTrace-based visualization for Node.js during the 2010 Node Knockout, instrumenting a distributed, dynamic, highly virtualized deployment and tying… | ||
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