Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/">Bryan Cantrill</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bcantrill">@bcantrill</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Bryan Cantrill talks with Dave Rael about public clouds, </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Bryan Cantrill</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's opinion of formal computer science education and the importance understanding what lies beneath the abstractions we consume</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's role and the nature of Joyent</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's thoughts on the economics of on-premise computing and the collapse of it's use int the face of public cloud enthusiasm</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Joyent's approach to openness and preventing lockin</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Bryan got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's story of failure - attitude toward defects and the impact on personal confidence</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The pitfall of having a fixed mindset among gifted individuals and the importance of persistence</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Taking action and speaking your mind</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's philosophy of parenting and what parents can control</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's book recommencations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Bryan</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/" target="_blank">Bryan's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.joyent.com/" target="_blank">Joyent</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/" target="_blank">Joel Spolsky on Leaky Abstractions</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345538986/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Jurassic Park: A Novel - Michael Crichton</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent" target="_blank">The Joyent Blog Post on Being Acquired by Samsung</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist" target="_blank">John the Baptist</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/details/" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services Snowball</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services Snowmobile</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.joyent.com/triton" target="_blank">Joyent's Container Service: Triton</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_67" target="_blank">IBM System/360 Model 67</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson_Jr." target="_blank">Thomas J. Watson Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weed" target="_blank">Larry Weed</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT" target="_blank">IBM PC XT</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS" target="_blank">DOS</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw" target="_blank">Bryan at Monktoberfest 2016 on Oral Tradition in Software Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)" target="_blank">Jim Gray</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/75064-problems-worthy-of-attack-prove-their-worth-by-fighting-back" target="_blank">"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - attributed here to Piet Hein</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk82j1jQw_8" target="_blank">Rocky Balboa - Motivational/Inspirational Speech To Son (relevant to Bryan's emphasis on persistence and moving forward against resistance)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Bryan's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316491977/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sloan+technology+series&sprefix=sloan+tech%2Cstripbooks%2C176&crid=376Q2ANKKF55O&tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Sloan Technology Series</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451677618/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition - Richard Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684835290/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution - Robert Buderi</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679412727/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Mo dern Agriculture (Sloan Technology Series) - Craig Canine</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html" target="_blank">The Story of Mel ("The Last Real Programmer") - Ed Nather</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html" target="_blank">The Bug Count Also Rises - John Browne</a></li> <li><a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html" target="_blank">Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns - Steve Yegge</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Read more</li> <li>Write more</li> <li>Be persistent</li> </ol> </div> </div>
