Editing Keith Bostic (software engineer)

{{short description|American software engineer}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2011}}
{{infobox person
| name               = Keith Bostic
| image              = Keith Bostic.jpg
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1959|07|26}}
| employer           = {{plainlist|
*[[UC Berkeley]] [[Computer Systems Research Group|CSRG]]
*{{nowrap|[[Sleepycat Software|Sleepycat]]}} / {{nowrap|[[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]}}
*{{nowrap|[[WiredTiger]]}} / {{nowrap|[[MongoDB]]}}
}}
| known              = [[nvi]] and [[Berkeley DB]]
| spouse             = [[Margo Seltzer]]
| website            = {{Official URL}}
}}
'''Keith Bostic''' (born July 26, 1959) is an American [[software engineer]] and one of the key people in the history of [[Berkeley Software Distribution]] (BSD) Unix and [[open-source software]].

==Biography==
In 1986, Bostic joined the [[Computer Systems Research Group]] (CSRG) at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="DiBoni">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781565925823|title=Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution|last=McKusick|first=Marshall Kirk|date=1999-01-01|publisher=O'Reilly & Associates|isbn=978-1-56592-582-3|editor-last=DiBona|editor-first=Chris|chapter=Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix - From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable|editor-last2=Ockman|editor-first2=Sam|editor-last3=Stone|editor-first3=Mark|url-access=registration}}</ref> He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases.<ref name="Dougherty">{{cite web |last=Dougherty |first=Dale |date=2000-03-24 |title=Bostic on the BSD Tradition: An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic |url=http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/24/bostic.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528161153/http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/24/bostic.html |archive-date=2013-05-28 |access-date=2008-04-05 |work=ONLamp.com: BSD DevCenter |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.}}</ref> Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a [[free software]] version of BSD Unix, which, in turn, enabled the creation of [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], and [[OpenBSD]].

Bostic was a founder of [[Berkeley Software Design Inc.]] (BSDi),<ref name="Dougherty"/> which produced [[BSD/OS]], 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 [[Margo Seltzer]] founded [[Sleepycat Software]] in 1996 to develop and commercialize [[Berkeley DB]], an [[open-source software|open-source]], [[key-value database]]. Sleepycat Software was the first company to develop dual-licensed open-source software. In February 2006, the company was acquired by [[Oracle Corporation]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oracle Buys Sleepycat, Is JBoss Next?|url=https://www.informationweek.com/oracle-buys-sleepycat-is-jboss-next/180200853|access-date=2021-03-05|website=InformationWeek|date=13 February 2006 |language=en}}</ref> where Bostic worked until 2008.

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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-snaps-up-wiredtiger-and-its-storage-expert-team/|title=MongoDB snaps up WiredTiger and its storage expert team|last=Wolpe|first=Toby|date=December 16, 2014|work=[[ZDNet]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312040809/https://www.zdnet.com/article/mongodb-snaps-up-wiredtiger-and-its-storage-expert-team/|archive-date=March 12, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref>

Bostic is the author of [[nvi]]—a re-implementation of the classic [[text editor]] [[vi (text editor)|vi]]—and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities. He is a past member of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]], [[IEEE]], and several [[POSIX]] working groups, and a contributor to POSIX standards.<ref name=bostic-informit>{{cite web|title=Keith Bostic|url=http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=0A7D090F-7B74-484F-92B8-1A651D3E0A4E|publisher=informit|access-date=19 November 2013}}</ref>

==Publications==
* [[Marshall Kirk McKusick|M. McKusick]], K. Bostic, [[Michael J. Karels|M. Karels]], [[John Quarterman|J. Quarterman]]: ''The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System'', Addison-Wesley, April 1996, {{ISBN|0-201-54979-4}}. French translation published 1997, International Thomson Publishing, Paris, France, {{ISBN|2-84180-142-X}}.
*{{Cite journal|last1=McIlroy|first1=Peter M.|last2=Bostic|first2=Keith|last3=McIlroy|first3=M. Douglas|date=Winter 1993|title=Engineering Radix Sort|url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/compsystems/1993/win_mcilroy.pdf|journal=Computing Systems|publisher=[[USENIX Association]]|volume=6|issue=1|pages=5–27}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website}}

{{Berkeley Software Distribution}}

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