PalDB : embeddable write-once key-value store written in Java by LinkedIn crowd. This solution kind of sit between json/file and level/rocksdb [github]
RDMA + HTM : very nice concept, would love to see the extension of HTM to NVM tech in order to close the loop. T His would deliver tremendous speed up capability. But also another type of concurrency model to understand.
Metrics 2.0 : emerging set of conventions, standards and concepts around time series metrics metadata
Openstack at scale at CERN : 5k hypoerisor, 15k VM, up to 1 Millions vm, the scale of the CERN openstack deployment is really what is driving the effort to push openstack beyond its limits.
HEPIX fall 2015 : Hepix is a really interesting workshop as it provide real use case report and experience of large scale IT infrastructure and as time evolved pretty much HPC cloud centric solution.
Awesome AWS : A curated list of awesome AWS libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources with a popularity rating system built in :)
Blockchain Consensus Protocols : a little bit of blockchain beyond fintech (but still a lot of fintech in this slidedeck).
Velocity 2015 : speakers slides , lots of very good talks, particularly the sampling strategy for large scale monitoring and breaking stuff to make them more reliable.
Cloud HPC guide : when you want your workload doesn't fit the enterprise definition.
HPC networking trends : while the trend is always for bigger network the interesting aspect is the focus also on improving the MTTI as it currently takes days to recover from failure.
Energy-Efficient In-Memory Data Stores onHybrid Memory Hierarchies : propose code instrumentation in order to identify the best object placement for performance/power efficiency. Nice idea however lack of practicality for production environment. Also it assume a pretty stable behavior of the system.
IISWC-2015 : 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization
Intel cache partitioning : why Intel added cache partitioning, the feature is really useful in order to avoid cache pollution and noisy neighbor effect in virtual environment. Until there is an automated way to provision the configuration (autonuma style maybe). It will remain niche. Too bad this is badly needed as the number of cores to cache ratio keep increasing.
Irreversible Failures : Lessons from the AWS DynamoDB Outage, and why you should always be prepared for white/gray/black swan events. Make your system ductile not brittle..
SOPS 2015 : interesting pick from microsoft research : ironfleet distributed system validation, and distributed transaction. From Intel we have the virtual cpu validation
VISC : update on the virtual core technology by soft machine. Interesting concept, however like the Itanium, really hard to pull off as it requires a specific combination of software and hardware to work. Lets see if they fare better than Intel in that domain.
Queue splitting: want to use DPDK for some traffic and the rest go through the standard stack? checkout the bifurcated drivers!
NVDIMM and persistent memory in QEMU : cool talk about persistent memory tech for virtualization. This open up a whole new realm of possibility.
Consensus in the wild : lot of way to achieve consensus out there but which one is the most efficient for your requirements. Answer : it depends and we have no consensus.
IronFleet: Tool for proving corectness of practical distributed systems using TLA-style state-machine refinement and Hoare-logic verification.
AtlasDB : Transactional Distributed Database layer on top of K/V store.
