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

All Things Distributed

May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Araújo, K. Gray and David R. Needham and Michael D.

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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. x series.