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February 3, 2022

ctFS: Converting File Index Traversals to Hardware Memory Translation through Contiguous File Allocation for Persistent Memory

A Persistent Memory Filesystem that uses virtual memory mapping to physical memory to speed up file access

Authors: Ruibin Li, Xiang Ren, Xu Zhao, Siwei He, Michael Stumm, Ding Yuan

Article shepherded by:

Alexandra Fedorova

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February 2, 2022

Lessons Learned in 10 Years of SRE: Part 1 - Starting SRE

It is vital to have clear motivations, align with business goals, have the right kind of expertise, to pay attention to culture, and to build trust.

Authors: Andrea Spadaccini

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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January 17, 2022

Getting Zoned Storage out of the Friend Zone

Zone Namespaces provide a new interface to SSDs, giving applications writers the ability to improve SSD efficiency and performance.

Authors: Matias Bjørling, George Amvrosiadis, Bill Jannen, Rik Farrow

Article shepherded by:

Bill Jannen, Rik Farrow

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January 14, 2022

Imposing a Cyber Penalty Against Attackers with Cyber Deception

This research demonstrates that defensive deception both slows down and helps detect attackers.

Authors: Kimberly Ferguson-Walter

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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December 27, 2021

Diciclo: Data-Intensive Container Isolation for Multitenant Clouds

Diciclo is a general framework for building user-level file and network services for container storage.

Authors: Giorgos Kappes, Stergios V. Anastasiadis

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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December 22, 2021

Prodspec and Annealing

A technical deep dive into Google's intent-based production management.

Authors: Pierre Palatin, Betsy Beyer

Article shepherded by:

Laura Nolan

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December 16, 2021

The Web3 Fraud

Web3 is not a revolution in decentralization. It's just an inefficient way to promote cryptocurrencies.

Authors: Nicholas Weaver

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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December 14, 2021

A Tutorial on Building Custom Linux Appliances

A tutorial that shows how to easily build a simple Linux environment running with a focus on providing a platform for running experiments in systems research.

Authors: Han Dong, Jonathan Appavoo

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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December 9, 2021

Squeezing the Cybersecurity Lemons – A Labeling Regime for IoT Products

IoT security labels must be developed accounting for the diversity of devices and deployment contexts, the sustainability of labeling regimes, and the user experience of consumers.

Authors: Vaibhav Garg, Andreas Kuehn

Article shepherded by:

Rik Farrow

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