Caching Entire Systems without Invalidation
Peter Sperl presents two systems design patterns for implementing resilient and layered caching in large distributed systems.
Authors: Peter Sperl
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Interview with Matt Welsh
Rik Farrow interviews Matt Welsh about Rust and the future of replacing programmers with AI/ML.
Authors: Rik Farrow, Matt Welsh
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Space Rogue
The story of the L0pht, the group best known for their Senate testimony about security in 1998, as told by Chris Thomas, Space Rogue.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Interview with Warren Toomey, Founder of the Unix Heritage Society
Warren Toomey became interested in Unix as a high school student, an interest the affected his career and the creation of the Unix Heritage Society
Authors: Warren Toomey, Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Kairux: Distributed System Fault Localization based on The Inflection Point Hypothesis
Uncovering fault locations in distributed Java-based applications.
Authors: Yongle Zhang, Kirk Rodrigues, Yu Luo, Michael Stumm, Ding Yuan
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Reliability Maturity Model
Learn about the reliability maturity of your organization from examples, as well as why maintaining the right level is important.
Authors: Vartika Agarwal, Tracy Ferrell
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan, Rik Farrow
Fred Brooks as Mentor
Richard Sites tells about having Fred Brooks, best-known for the Mythical Man-Month, as his PhD advisor.
Authors: Richard L. Sites
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Why Health Checks are Like Sidewalks
What could be simpler than a health check? The humble health check is the nexus of a complex set of orchestration processes in modern systems. Laura Nolan describes their pitfalls.
Authors: Laura Nolan
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Trailblazer
The autobiography of Mary Ann Horton, member of the original BSD team and transgender activist
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
SLOs and GHGs
Learn how to measure the carbon emissions of your software using service-level objectives and reduce the impact your system has on the planet.
Authors: Bill Johnson
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time
Dave O'Connor engages in some spirited book-ripping about how we staff oncall teams.
Authors: Dave O'Connor
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Untangling the Cloud
Draw technical borders to divide your cloud resources into groupings that follow the logical boundaries of your systems and your organization.
Authors: Joshua Fox
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
LISA made LISA obsolete (That's a compliment!)
My memories (good and bad) of the USENIX LISA conference.
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Experimental Security Analysis of the App Model in Business Collaboration Platforms
These third-party apps that you installed in your Slack/Teams workspace may violate your privacy expectations in many unexpected ways.
Authors: Yunang Chen, Yue Gao, Nick Ceccio, Rahul Chatterjee, Kassem Fawaz, Earlence Fernandes
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Python Distilled
Python Distilled teaches you how to get the most out of Python 3 in a short book with lots of examples and clear explanations.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Wanted Hacked or Patched:
A targeted open source bug bounty initiative that allows users to secure third party code by crowdsourcing the security analysis to external researchers.
Authors: Chujiao Ma, Matthew Bosack, Wendy Rothschell, Noopur Davis, Vaibhav Garg
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly
WebAssembly’s safety guarantees are only as strong as the implementation enforcing them. We show two approaches to provably sandbox Wasm code, using formal verification and Rust.
Authors: Jay Bosamiya, Wen Shih Lim, Bryan Parno
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
The Sticky Problem of Measuring Passwords
Designing a tool that can take measurements on password has many challenges. We describe the process behind designing Gossamer, a framework for securely measuring passwords.
Authors: Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Mazharul Islam, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
