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

All Things Distributed

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Aug 11 - " On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations ", Saltzer, J. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

Using genomics and deep learning as two motivating examples, he highlighted the importance of algorithm-architecture co-design to improve end-to-end efficiency. The best paper runner-up was “ Dynamic Multi-Resolution Data Storage ”. .

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. At my employer we sometimes use SR-IOV for direct network interface access, and NVMe for direct disk access. It's the official profiler. I think that is a weakness of Linux.