Microsoft Linux Systems Group | US | Full Time | Principal Software Engineer - Linux Virtualization
Our team plays a key role in driving Linux based virtualization technology in Microsoft. In this role, you will work closely with internal and external teams on defining a modern virtualization stack that meets customers’ requirements. You will work closely with upstream Linux, Rust-VMM and Cloud Hypervisor communities to bring the best Microsoft can offer and vice versa. You will have impact on all layers of a virtualization stack, from the hypervisor, Linux kernel, system libraries all the way up to the VMM.
If you enjoy system-level programming and solving interesting engineering problems, this is the right place for you. Come join us in promoting more open-source software usage in Microsoft and move the needle on virtualization technology.
武侠 (Wuxia) culture is big in Alibaba. Everyone has a 花名 (alias / nickname) in the company. In the early days, people just picked names from 金庸 (Jin Yong)'s novels. Jack Ma's 花名 is 风清扬, who is a great sword master in one of the novels. Source: I had a short stint there.
Picking 玄铁, which also comes from Jin Yong's novel, seems rather natural in that context.
Jin Yong's novels are very popular in Chinese speaking countries and regions. Most readers won't associate them with China. I don't think it has anything to do with national pride. Culture pride? I don't see much either.
A few years back, one of my ex-colleagues who needed to travel to US frequently for work was stopped right before boarding a plane because he had a layover in one of the blacklisted countries while on holiday. He didn't even know he lost his ESTA.
I upvoted you. Yes, APT was the major reason I chose Debian 15 years ago. It was much better than RPM without YUM (it wasn't part of RH systems back then IIRC).
Nowadays the competitive edge of APT could have diminished, but I never looked else where because I have been quite happy with APT.
I love Debian as a user. I considered becoming a DM then DD -- I read all the relevant documents and tested water with maintaining a package I used -- but ultimately gave up due to the bureaucracy and politics involved.
There are bugs though. I'm using Debian Stretch. Right click menu doesn't work: it appears for a fraction of a second then disappears; so does the top-bar menu of LastPass plugin.
Somewhat related: for anyone who is interested in unikernel development, there is a new proposed project called Unicore under the Xen Project umbrella.
That project aims to reduce the effort for porting applications to run in unikernels on different platforms (Xen, KVM and baremetal).