Behind the Scene: Techno Agile (#4)

Reading time: 2 minutesIn our Agile Experience Report published on the Agile Alliance website I explained in detail how we learned to continuously adapt to new situations and learn from our mistakes. The document details our organisational and interpersonal practices. This is, for all intents and purposes, the social side of agile. But there is also a very important technical part we must take into consideration. Without the tools and technical practices, agile …

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Behind the Scene: Culture Shock (#3)

Reading time: 2 minutesBeing part of a long lasting cultural change process in a company has its advantages and disadvantages. As a company and as a team we started to introduce Agile in our culture about five years ago. The effects of such a big change are diverse, but here are two of the most important ones: On one hand, there were changes in the way we organize our work and collaborate with …

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Behind the Scene: How We Develop Storage OS (#1)

Reading time: 2 minutesCreating a storage product is certainly a challenging task. A storage array represents a synergy between hardware, software, and maintenance. Recently the story about how we develop our storage operating system, Storage OS, as a team and company, was published by the Agile Alliance on their website. Our Agile Experience Report is entitled “One Bug Per Month”. It showcases the story behind our development processes and their evolution.“One thing I …

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Storage Performance Analytics: the New Storage OS 2.16

Reading time: 3 minutesCutting straight to the chase, Syneto Storage OS 2.16 will give you complete and transparent access to your storage’s performance information with a wide range of customisable storage performance analytics. This will always “keep you in the know” regarding what your data is doing on the array and allow you to optimise as needed. There are also many new smaller features and fixes for Storage OS‘s Server Virtualization, High Availability and VMware …

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A dive into filesystems – ZFS – part 1

Reading time: 5 minutesI’m starting a series of posts about ZFS. I will try to provide as much as possible architectural diagrams and code examples. The series is for people wanting to learn more about general filesystem architecture, especially about ZFS (OpenZFS). I will restrict myself for now to the implementation and architecture on Illumos, the open source fork of OpenSolaris. Let’s start with the higher level abstraction, the Virtual File System. Like …

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