I am finally taking some time to start my blog. So let's start with a short introduction: my name is Alexandre Chartre, I am based in Grenoble (France) and I am working for the Solaris sustaining team. For short this means that I am engineer and that I am spending most of my time troubleshooting problems and fixing bugs!

The main product I work on is Sun Cluster. This software offers application service continuity by providing high-availability at the application level: that means that an application can run on several different machines and if a machine becomes unavailable then the application will be automatically switched over to another system with minimal service downtime (well, that's a quick one line summary).

My favorite topics are the Solaris kernel, debugging and troubleshooting. Sun Cluster is then a very interesting software to work on because a major part is implemented in the kernel and it interacts with many kernel components. So this makes my job very interesting and challenging.