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Cantrill is one of the people responsible for dtrace, and more or less the only Sun-alumni who's not retired or disappeared (a lot of them stopped blogging when Oracle killed the Sun blogging culture and site/killed Sun). He also was the CTO of Joyent.

Frazelle was one of the people responsible for Docker.

I think Tuck is a finance guy who used to be a sysadmin? And he was COO of Joyent for a while, apparently.

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How did Oracle kill the Sun blogging culture? What/Who was the Sun blogging culture?

Engineers blogging about Solaris etc. Internals, gotchas, upcoming things, heads-ups on problems. The patching guys' blog was particularly useful in the face of Solaris' atrocious packaging utils, for example.

There was a _huge_ amount of official-unofficial documentation in the blogs that disappeared from the Sun site when Oracle ran its bulldozer through it.

Sun very strongly encouraged their employees to have blogs, and was either one of or the first to do so (especially at their level). Basically no restrictions on subject matter. Even their CEO regularly blogged!

A better question would be "What didn't Oracle do to kill the Sun blogging culture?"

Oracle still has plenty of ex-Sun on their Java team, which blog seldom, but still blog.

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