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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. July 20 Xen and the art of virtualization by Paul Barham, Boris Dragovic, Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Timothy L. Araújo, K. Bar-Yam, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. Malo, France.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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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.