Reflections Of The Void: 08/01/2014

Friday, August 29, 2014

Today's links : blockchain , Database, Distributed Systems , Queues

Blocksign: blockchain service for legally signing any document, contract, or agreement.
Database Reading list : Implementation of Database System reading list for CS286. Good topic overview
Distributed systems theory for the distributed systems engineer : More than a simple list of paper, this is a very nice introduction to the world of distributed systems.
Queues : Job queues, message queues and other queues. Almost all of them in one place.

Today's links : IO performance , LinuxCon 2014 slides , IP laws

Understanding I/O Patterns at the Block Level with ioprof , blktrace, and blkparse : Nice and Short overview on how to use I/O benchmark and performance tool to characterize performance of block devices .
Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society; Cases and Materials (PDF) — James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins’ open law textbook on IP.
LinuxCon 2014 slides decks : interesting ones:

TwitterCache : Replacing Hardware RAID with Persistent Memory and software RAID stack
Ever Growing CPU States: Context Switch with Less Memory and Better Performance : loads of cpu goodies from Intel
Kpatch Without Stop Machine : open source live patching solution , useful for these system that MUST stay up.

Today's link : NLP, Kubernetes, CAP , text editor

Tutorial: Deep Learning for NLP (without Magic) by Richard Socher, Chris Manning and Yoshua Bengiom, NAACL 2013
Kubernetes Roadmap : whats cooking
CAP Twelve Years Later: How the 'Rules' Have Changed : stuff change stuff say the same
Lime Text editor : work in progress but definite potential to surpass sublime editor.

Today's link : BlockChain , DNS, Elastic Cloud Management, Marketplace and Non Turing language

Circuit : is a programmable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and/or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), for management, discovery, synchronization and orchestration of services and hosts comprising cloud applications. Non-turing circuit based architecture are really interesting concept

DNS chain : using blockchain to discover, authenticate and encrypt communication
Xennet: Another solution using blockchain :HPC Cloud want to be Free-Market Alternative to AWS

Today's links: SDN , RDMA , Micro-services, Beautiful website

Decentralized Task-aware Scheduling for Data Center Networks by Fahad R Dogar, Thomas Karagiannis, Hitesh Ballani, and Ant Rowstron, August 2014, SIGCOMM 2014
Using RDMA Efficiently for Key-Value Services : HERD, RDMA fabric optimized key-value system
"Application-Driven Bandwidth Guarantees in Datacenters", HP Labs, SIGCOMM'14, PDF
Failing at Microservices : what not to do when you want to deploy microservices by @richardclayton
Beatiful website : some WebGL Magic

Today's links : deep learning book, corporate buzzword song, and synchronization methods

Free book : as the title say learn neural network and deep learning
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synchronization but Were Afraid to Ask : very good paper providing an overview of different synchronization methods.
Mission Statement : Corporate speak / buzzword bingo song.. Funny but also depressing in some way. Song by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Today's links : Big data, deep learning, Cryptography, Microsoft Dev practice evolution

TESSERA : Open Source Environment for Deep Analysis of Large Complex Data
New algorithm shakes up #cryptography : Researchers have solved one aspect of the discrete logarithm problem
A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm : fast, minimal memory, consistent hash algorithm in 5 lines of code!
How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century : the long road to move toward an agile dev ops oriented practice at Microsoft.

Today's links: Carmack, GPGPU and secure DHT

John Carmack SMU Talk : "miss an opportunity you can just wait for the next one", "avoiding chasing the last big thing"
Arrayfire opensource its code: #gpu #cuda #opencl opensource
TeleHash : A secure wire protocol powering a decentralized overlay network for apps and devices using a kademilia based DHT routing protocol; TeleHash / JSON + UDP + DHT = Freedom

Today's links: Autotools, SNIA, Software defined storage , Loom from HP and a rude cloud consultant

Autotools Mythbuster : no-nonsense guide to Autotools
2014 Data Storage Innovation Conference Presentations :
Mining of Massive Datasets : Book on data mining of very large amounts of data by Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman @standford
HP Loom : hybrid cloud management tool at scale via a single console