Mike Shapiro (programmer)

{{short description|American computer programmer}}

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Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC.

While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed pgrep, the Modular Debugger (MDB), DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system.https://blogs.oracle.com/mws/entry/introduction Mike Shapiro's Blog

The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating system, including Linux,{{Cite web|url=https://linux.die.net/man/1/pgrep|title=Pgrep(1) - Linux man page}} BSD,{{Cite web|url=https://man.openbsd.org/pgrep|title = Pkill(1) - OpenBSD manual pages}} and macOS,{{Cite web|url=https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/proctools|title=Proctools}} and are commonly used by system administrators and developers.{{cite web

| url = https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2016/187/Command-Line-Pgrep

| title = Greater Grokking of pgrep

| year = 2016

| publisher = www.linux-magazine.com

}}{{cite web

| url = https://www.networkworld.com/article/3174284/sniffing-out-processes-using-pgrep.html

| title = Sniffing Out Unix Processes Using pgrep

| date = 2017-02-27

| publisher = www.networkworld.com

}}

Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from The Wall Street Journal in 2006.{{cite web

| url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115755300770755096

| title = The Winners Are...

| accessdate = 2007-03-31

| last = Totty

| first = Michael

|date=September 2006

| work = The Wall Street Journal

| publisher = Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

}}

DTrace was also recognized by USENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008.{{cite web

| url = http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/index.html

| title = 2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '08)

| accessdate = 2008-11-26

| year = 2008

}} Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD{{Cite web|url=https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/dtrace/|title = Chapter 25. DTrace}} and Apple's macOS.{{cite web

| url = https://www.zdnet.com/article/mac-os-x-leopard-gets-suns-dtrace/

| title = Mac OS X Leopard gets Sun's DTrace

| date = 2006-08-08

| publisher = ZDNet

}}

Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using Solaris and Sun's ZFS filesystem, announced in 2008.{{cite web

| url = http://www.techworld.com.au/article/266682/sun_rolls_its_own_storage_appliances/

| title = Sun rolls out its own storage appliances

| date = 2008-11-11 | accessdate = 2013-11-13

| publisher = techworld.com.au

}} In interviews with the New York Times{{cite web

| url = https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/sun-microsystems-hopes-to-shake-up-storage-industry/comment-page-1/?r=0

| date = 2008-09-05

| title = Sun Microsystems Hopes to Shake Up Storage Industry

| work = The New York Times

}} and Fortune,{{cite web

| url = https://fortune.com/2008/11/12/sun-gambles-big-as-outlook-darkens/

| date = 2008-11-12

| title = Sun gambles big as outlook darkens

| publisher = fortune.com

}} Shapiro explained how a small engineering team at Sun dubbed "Fishworks" pitched the project to Sun's executives and developed the product outside of Sun's organizational structure.

After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun, Shapiro managed engineering for storage products as Vice President for Storage. Oracle reported in 2015 that the ZFS Storage product line had surpassed $1B in revenue.{{cite web

| url = https://www.storagereview.com/news/oracle-announces-that-its-zfs-storage-appliance-has-surpassed-1-billion-in-revenue

| title = Oracle Announces That Its ZFS Storage Appliance Has Surpassed $1 Billion In Revenue

| date = 2015-10-09

| publisher = storagereview.com

}}

Shapiro announced his departure from Oracle in a 2010 blog posting,{{cite web

| url = https://blogs.oracle.com/mws/entry/end_of_file

| title = End of File

| date = 2010-10-22 | accessdate = 2016-02-25

}} and was revealed several years later as a member of the founding team of DSSD when EMC purchased the startup.[http://reflectionsblog.emc.com/dssd-is-game-changer/#more-1810 Why DSSD is a Game Changer] He developed the DSSD software architecture with fellow Sun engineer Jeff Bonwick, and served as DSSD's vice president for software. Shapiro explained how DSSD built the industry's first NVM Express pooled storage system for multiple host computers in a 2016 interview with the Hot Aisle podcast.{{cite web

| url = http://www.inthedc.com/wp/the-hot-aisle-re-architecting-the-storage-stack-with-dssds-mike-shapiro-episode-35/

| title = The Hot Aisle – Re-Architecting the Storage Stack with DSSD's Mike Shapiro

| date = 2016-04-26

| publisher = www.inthedc.com

}} The DSSD product was used in the TACC 2015 "Wrangler" computer cluster{{cite web

| url = https://insidehpc.com/2015/04/taccs-wrangler-uses-dssd-technology-for-data-intensive-computing/

| title = TACC's "Wrangler" Uses DSSD Technology for Data-Intensive Computing

| date = 2015-04-22

| publisher = insidehpc.com

}} and received HPCwire's Editor's Choice Award later that year.{{ cite web

| url = https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/tacc-recognized-in-hpcwire-readers-and-editors-choice-awards/

| title = TACC Recognized in HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards

| date = 2015-11-17

| publisher = www.hpcwire.com

}}

After EMC was acquired by Dell Technologies, the DSSD group was folded into the EMC storage product division in 2017.{{Cite news |title= Dell kills off standalone DSSD D5, scatters remains into other gear |author= Chris Mellor |work= The Register |date= March 2, 2017 |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/02/dell_cans_standalone_dssd/ |access-date= March 4, 2017 }}

Shapiro was a co-author of the NVM Express over Fabrics storage protocol announced in 2014.{{Cite news |title= NVM Express Organization Initiates "NVM Express over Fabrics" Effort; NVMe Specification Revision 1.2 Approaching Ratification |work= Press release |date= September 3, 2014 |url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140903005332/en/NVM-Express-Organization-Initiates-NVM-Express-Fabrics |access-date= March 4, 2017 }} By 2019, IDC analysts reported that NVMeoF was disrupting SAN purchasing by offering significant performance improvements for networked SSDs.{{cite web

| url = https://www.networkworld.com/article/3394296/nvme-over-fabrics-creates-data-center-storage-disruption.html

| title = NVMe over Fabrics creates data-center storage disruption

| date = 2019-05-14

| publisher = www.networkworld.com

}}