Keith Bostic (software engineer)
This poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. )Find sources: "Keith Bostic" software engineer – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2011) |
Keith Bostic | |
---|---|
Born | July 26, 1959 |
Employers |
|
Known for | nvi and Berkeley DB |
Website | bostic |
Keith Bostic (born July 26, 1959) is an American
Biography
In 1986, Bostic joined the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.[2] Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD Unix, which helped allow the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Bostic was a founder of
, a proprietary version of BSD.In 1993, the USENIX Association gave a Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) to the Computer Systems Research Group, honoring 180 individuals, including Bostic, who contributed to the group's 4.4BSD-Lite release.
Bostic and his wife
Bostic and Michael Cahill founded WiredTiger in 2010 to create a NoSQL database management system. In November 2014, the company was acquired by MongoDB, which employed Bostic.[4]
Bostic is the author of
Publications
- ISBN 2-84180-142-X.
- McIlroy, Peter M.; Bostic, Keith; McIlroy, M. Douglas (Winter 1993). "Engineering Radix Sort" (PDF). Computing Systems. 6 (1). USENIX Association: 5–27.
References
- ISBN 978-1-56592-582-3.
- ^ a b Dougherty, Dale (2000-03-24). "Bostic on the BSD Tradition: An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic". ONLamp.com: BSD DevCenter. O'Reilly Media, Inc. Archived from the original on 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ "Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next?". InformationWeek. 13 February 2006. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
- ZDNet. Archivedfrom the original on March 12, 2017. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ "Keith Bostic". informit. Retrieved 19 November 2013.