Codon: Python Compiler
Codon is a compiler for Python scripts that produces optimized code suitable for analyzing large amounts of data, with some limitations.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
A Study in Practical Deduplication
Using data collected from 875 Microsoft employees' desktops and servers, the authors analyzed file metadata and potential deduplication strategies.
Authors: Dutch Meyer, Bill Bolosky, Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
You don’t have a production environment
Your staging environment cannot accurately replicate your production environment. Multi-tenancy can solve this problem.
Authors: Avishai Ish-Shalom
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Mistrust Plugins You Must: A Large-Scale Study Of Malicious Plugins In WordPress Marketplaces
Authors: Ranjita Pai Sridhar, Jonathan Fuller, Yiting Sun, Omar Chabklo, Andres Rodriguez, Jeman Park, Brendan Saltaformaggio
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Musings on Operating Systems
Why is Windows on the desktop, while Linux rules the cloud?
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow, Laura Nolan
Workload Security Rings
Authors: Michał Czapiński , Rainer Wolafka
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
CI is Alerting
Adding lots of alerts during the early stages of development can pay off later in an Continuous Integration environment.
Authors: Titus Winters
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow, Laura Nolan
Rock Fishing and Incident Analysis
What can technologists learn from studying how rock fishers think about safety?
Authors: Thai Wood
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Detecting Fail-Slow Failures in Large-Scale Cloud Storage Systems
Researchers tried several different methods for discovering fail-slow drives before developing PERSEUS for very large cloud storage
Authors: Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Yiming Zhang, Fengyi Zhu, Zhaosheng Zhu, Mengtian Wang, Zongpeng Zhu, Guangtao Xue, Jiwu Shu, Minglu Li, Jiesheng Wu
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
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
Book Review: Trailblazer: Lighting the Path for Transgender Equality in Corporate America by Mary Ann Horton
An autobiography of Mary Ann Horton, member of the original BSD team and transgender activist
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
