Improving On-call Fatigue
Daria argues the notion that "On-call shifts should be stressful and trying”, by suggesting ideas on how to spin on-call to be positive, educating, and bring teams together.
Authors: Daria Barteneva
Article shepherded by: Effie Mouzeli
Thirty-Five Years of LISA
With the LISA conference ending, the LISA Steering Committee decided to collect a history of the conference, that started in 1987 and end in 2021.
Authors: Cory Lueninghoener, Carolyn Rowland
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Musings on Operating Systems Research
The lineup, followed by a discussion of Timothy Roscoe's keynote at OSDI and ATC 2021
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Avoiding the 'SLOs as Reliability Theater' trap
Jacob Scott discusses some of the 'failure modes' that can happen when Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are imposed in a top-down fashion.
Authors: Jacob Scott
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Kill It With Fire
Marianne Bellotti's Kill it With Fire is a book on legacy modernization, with a twist: it's written largely from an operations perspective.
Authors: Laura Nolan
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Seeing like an SRE
Thomas Depierre argues that SRE can bridge the gap between high-level metrics that management requires and the contextual service-specific knowledge that engineering teams have.
Authors: Thomas Depierre
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Interview with Vasily Tarasov
Vasily Tarasov explains his journey from Russia and Linux kernel work, to Stony Brook, then IBM, working with file systems.
Authors: Vasily Tarasov, Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Computer Graphics from Scratch
Gabriel Gambetta, a game developer and college instructor, teaches you how to write 3D shaders using simple and linear algebra and code examples.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Unikraft and the Coming of Age of Unikernels
Unikernels combine a program with the system call support needed to host the program in a VM without an OS; Unikraft adds features that make using it easy.
Authors: Hugo Lefeuvre, Gaulthier Gain, Daniel Dinca, Alexander Jung, Simon Kuenzer, Vlad Bădoiu, Răzvan Deaconescu , Laurent Mathy, Costin Raiciu, Pierre Olivier, Felipe Huici
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
