Oral Tradition in Systems Software Engineering
Co-Founder & CTO of Oxide Computer Company
47:59·2016·undergraduate level·Conference Talk
Examines how hard-won production debugging wisdom is transmitted across generations of kernel and systems engineers through postmortems, source comments, and war stories.
From ‘Jingle Bells Batman Smells’ to ‘Real Programmers Write in FORTRAN,’ Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) dives into how we share our collective knowledge and how we pass wisdom to future generations. He advocates for writing software with future generations in mind.
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