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Interview with Uroš Gruber

What's this blog post about?

In this interview with Uroš Gruber, a maintainer of the FreeBSD port of the Datadog Agent and founder of Squarebox, he shares his journey into technology from the 1990s to the present day. He discusses the tech scene in Slovenia, his early experiences with computers like ZX Spectrum and Pentium, and how he got hooked on FreeBSD due to its stability and well-documented framework. Uroš also delves into the process of porting software to FreeBSD, specifically the challenges faced while porting the Datadog Agent, which involved understanding Golang and Python integration, handling permissions, and dealing with configuration files and default integrations. He expresses his desire for more contributions in developing features like support for FreeBSD jails.

Company
Datadog

Date published
Jan. 17, 2022

Author(s)
Daniel Maher, Uroš Gruber

Word count
2175

Language
English

Hacker News points
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