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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking Marty et al., This paper describes the networking stack, Snap , that has been running in production at Google for the last three years+. You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. SOSP’19. Enter Google!

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Ride sharing services have added driver/fleet capacity and accelerated speed-of-access for local transportation service. That makes the price affordable to the user.

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Come On and Take a Free (Regulatory) Ride

The Agile Manager

To be competitive in the transportation business, a company needs scale; that means transportation companies are large direct employers. Transportation is an industry of great national importance: jobs create middle-class households that spend money, pay taxes, and vote.

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What I Read in 2017

Tim Kadlec

His point, very Neil Postman-esque, is particularly true in today’s world of entertainment-driven news and fast-moving social networks that I’m increasingly convinced that, by default, only amplify existing biases. Its incredible popularity has resulted in many shallow, poorly written books gaining great popularity.

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