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Oh hey, the owner of the publisher is an Ellison! What a fun fact! Megan Ellison is Larry Ellison's daughter. For those not in the know, Larry Ellison is the owner of Oracle. He and his company are profoundly interesting in the way a tornado's effect on a wooden shack full of sheep is interesting. This section of a talk from a former Oracle employee does a great job of explaining why we should not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. It's hilarious and I highly recommend checking it out.
All of this is to say that his children might be a bit like him. Children aren't doomed to be like their parents, but they certainly can be like their parents.
EDIT: that talk is only of passing relevancy, but it's really funny and I can't pass up a chance to share it with people who may not have seen it.
lol Bryan Cantrill isn't just some random "former Oracle employee".
Very true! I was just in a rush and didn't want to explain who he was.
For others, Bryan Cantrill (the guy in the video) is an incredibly gifted engineer who worked for Sun Microsystems before they got bought out by Oracle. He was deeply involved in Solaris (Sun's really cool operating system that included pioneering shit like ZFS), and was then involved with Illumos, which was a fork of Solaris. He worked for a company called Joyent that made a super fucking cool thing called SmartOS, and now he's the CTO for a company called Oxide Computer.
This is a hideously bad summary of his accomplishments. People who want to know more should read his Wikipedia article or watch the talk I posted. He's a great presenter, so his talks are always pretty entertaining.
EDIT: The shit they're doing at Oxide is absolutely nuts. They're making what is effectively a datacenter contained within one 48u rack, and they're writing all their own firmware and BIOS and shit for it. It's crazy cool.