Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?
We provide a holistic view of the POSIX abstractions by a systematic review of the key factors that drove their evolution, and discuss our perspective of the future.
Authors: Pekka Enberg, Ashwin Rao, Jon Crowcroft, Sasu Tarkoma
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Three Years of Crowdsourcing Smart Home Network Traffic
Examining the security and privacy of thousands of real-world smart home networks using IoT Inspector
Authors: Danny Yuxing Huang
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Musings, July 2022
There is lots of evidence that there are few really good programmers, and Copilot isn't the solution.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Investigating Managed Language Runtime Performance
We instrumented and benchmarked Python and Node.js, finding out just how much slower they can be than Java, Go or C++ and why
Authors: David Lion, Adrian Chiu, Michael Stumm, Ding Yuan
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Redesigning Hardware to Support Security: CHERI
Over a decade of research has resulted in a tool chain and RISC hardware that change pointers from integers to their own, safe, type
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Metastable Failures in the Wild
We find that metastable failures are universally observed and provide an insider view of how they happen at Twitter
Authors: Lexiang Huang, Matthew Magnusson, Abishek Bangalore Muralikrishna, Salman Estyak, Rebecca Isaacs, Abutalib Aghayev, Timothy Zhu, Aleksey Charapko
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
What SRE Could Be
SRE could be - should be - much more than it is today. Please help.
Authors: Niall Murphy
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Computer Security and the Internet
This is a security text book that covers a very broad set of topics concisely and clearly.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Jurassic Cloud
Large parts of our “modern” stack are 30+ years old, just like its architectural principles. The result - software dinosaurs roaming the Jurassic Cloud, out of place, out of time.
Authors: Avishai Ish-Shalom
Article shepherded by: Effie Mouzeli
