Dan

Dan has asked 17 questions and find answers to 36 problems.

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Currently a lead in EC2 virtual networking.
Former lead on network-attached block storage for GCE (a.k.a. "Persistent Disk").
Former OpenZFS developer.
Before that, built infrastructure for an enterprise Java app.

Dan questions

thread interrupted flag semantics
ensuring one method's call stack always includes another method in Java
InputStream to Channel for Selector
postmortem deadlock debugging in PostgreSQL
java agent with jvmti load at runtime, unload from within
linker option to ignore unused dependencies
how to write cross-version/platform Linux kernel modules?
avoiding overuse of consensus protocols in a distributed system
Aliases to mutable thread-local data not allowed
duck typing in D

Dan answers

Resizing cloud VM disk without taking instance down (Google cloud)
Why is gRPC so much slower than an HTTP API sending an array
What is middleware in distributed systems?
Understanding shadow paging and how it differs from journaling file systems
High Write I/O "Pulsing" with dtrace errors
Why received ZFS dataset uses less space than original?
How to enable SSL connection for a GCP VM instance (Mautic)
Why are there not any execve calls in my dtruss trace?
How to change default zfs options of a zpool?
minimizing the cost of uploading a very large tar file to Google Cloud Storage