Over the last few years, I’ve had the honor to be invited to write forewords for two books: Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration: The Complete Reference (2012), and Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Handbook (2015).
(This is part of my secret plan to write all the forewords to all books ever, by first staking out Solaris administration books as my homeland turf. Once I’ve captured that hill, the rest is inevitable.)
It turns out that both forewords are visible on Amazon, in case you’d like to see what I wrote (see the links above). Short summary:
- The operating system matters
- Unix is an amazing platform
- Unix and its offspring are everywhere
- Unix (and its offspring) turns out to be a fantastic springboard for agile microservices. (Aka: we’ve been doing cloud since before cloud.)
Doesn’t seem too controversial too me; but, it’s a story I love to tell. I’d like to expand on that topic in a future post.