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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

After the AWS re: Invent conference I spent two weeks in Europe for the last customer visits of the year. Although there are still a few very exciting AWS news updates to happen this year. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I saw Erik Fisher last time I was in Budapest, and Constantin Gonzalez later became one of the first AWS solutions architects in Germany, too many names to mention. He hasn’t changed. So many global friendships were made that continue to today. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I've suggested adding a command to docker to make listing at least the top-level PIDs in containers easier. ## Virtual Machines The two main technologies on Linux are Xen and KVM (and there's Bhyve for BSD). What happens if processes really do try to populate all that virtual memory? I think that is a weakness of Linux.