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Operating System Innovation: Engineering Complete, Integrated, and Automated Software in Oracle Solaris
Liane Praza, Oracle
Operating systems sit at a unique place in computing. An OS has always abstracted computing hardware for applications and users alike and does everything from hardware initialization to scheduling algorithms for highly complex NUMA systems, to providing unique and reliable filesystems for massive amounts of data. But an OS is no longer confined to a single computer—as computing infrastructures have exploded, the OS also must deploy, update, and manage massive numbers of systems, virtual machines, and applications. This talk will explore the challenges of creating a truly modern Operating System like Oracle Solaris. It covers a number of specific low-level technology innovations and explores how combining and deeply integrating those capabilities allows us to continue doing the OS's job of abstracting our increasingly complex modern computing infrastructure.
Liane Praza is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and an architect of the Oracle Solaris Operating System. She joined Oracle in 2010 and has been working on the Solaris Operating System for more than 15 years with a variety of technologies, including HA, resource management, service management, and observability. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.
author = {Liane Praza},
title = {Operating System Innovation: Engineering Complete, Integrated, and Automated Software in Oracle Solaris},
year = {2014},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = jun
}
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