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
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
