All Things Distributed

JUNE 12, 2015

This weekend we go back in time all the way to the beginning of operating systems research. In the first SOSP conference in 1967 there were several papers that laid the foundation for the development of structured operating systems. There was the of course the lauded paper on the THE operating system by Dijkstra but for this weekend I picked the paper on memory locality by Peter Denning as this work laid the groundwork for the development of virtual memory systems.

Programming 98

Programming Operating System Virtualization Systems 98

The Polyglot Developer

JUNE 10, 2015

Apache Cordova 5.0 brought many changes, all of which are for the best, but many of which are a major inconvenience in terms of development or deployment. For example, previously I wrote about whitelisting external resources in Ionic Framework because by default everything is now blacklisted. This time we’re going to explore the new default build system, Gradle.

Mobile 40

Mobile Systems Processing Development 40

Speed Curve

JUNE 10, 2015

Originally published on the O'Reilly Radar Blog. I’ve attended four O’Reilly Velocity conferences over the last year, and I was struck by a notable shift in the conversations at Velocity in Santa Clara, Calif. Many speakers and attendees have started to change their language and describe the experience of their websites and apps from the user’s perspective.

Metrics 40

Metrics Design DevOps Website 40