Thursday, May 09, 2019

[Links of the Day] 09/05/2019 : Algorithms discrimination, Generalised solution to distributed consensus, P2P Docker registry

  • Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms : Machine learning has a huge potential, both for good and evil. The most perfidious is discrimination from an opaque algorithm, as proving that the algorithm is discriminative becomes extremely hard post-hoc. 
  • A generalised solution to distributed consensus : this result will rapidly become the first thing taught in every single distributed systems class. And if this holds as a generalization of trustful distributed consensus as a field, then she has defined its Turing Machine equivalent. And it is even remarkably easy to understand!
  • kraken : P2P Docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds

Tuesday, May 07, 2019

[Links of the Day] 07/05/2019 : JIT runtime for WASM, Advanced Distributed Command Dispatch, Data templating for all

  • WasmTime : Standalone JIT-style runtime for WebAsssembly, using Cranelift
  • Brighter : Command Dispatcher, Processor, and Distributed Task Queue
  • Jsonnet : A data templating language for app and tool developers. This seems to hit a sweet spot for app configuration and tools. Often a lot of microservices/ apps have chained dependency in their configuration and we are still forced to write and maintain each of these configuration files separately. Jsonnet helps you solve that issue.