[Links of the Day] 21/05/2018 : Automation and Make, FoundationDB, Usenix NSDI18

• Automation and Make : this is a really good description of best practice for Makefile and automation. 
• FoundationDB : Apple open source it's distributed DB system, another contender enters the fray. With Spanner on google cloud, CockroachDB and now FoundationDB. The Highly resilient distributed transactional system start to reach widespread usage.  [Github]
• Usenix NSDI 2018 Notes: a very good overview of NSDI conference, and naturally the morning paper is currently doing a more in-depth analysis of the main papers. [day 2&3]

Links of the day 18 - 05 - 2015

Links of the day 18/05/2015: NVM biblio , Author of Pegasus and Heracles PhD dissertation, Container for #apple #OSX

• Pegasus and Heracles : PhD defense of David Lo presenting his result in data-center orchestration system. He developed the Pegasus and Heracles platform for Google which resulted in significant power consumption reduction as well as resources usage efficiency increase. My guess is that Google is probably running between 13x and 15x more efficient than classic data-center and the gap is growing. I m not really sure that the whole container craze is actually improving the efficiency side as fragmentation often mean more complex and difficult orchestration. Ha almost forgot the PhD defense slides are here
• NVMDB : comprehensive survey of the (at last count) 340 non-volatile memory technology papers published between 2000 and 2014 in International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technology, VLSI Circuits), and International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The resulting data set provides a clear picture of how these memory technologies have evolved over time. [ Online Biblio ]
• xhyve : Mac fanatic rejoice, you thought you avoided the container craze so far. But fear no more here comes the lightweight virtualization solution for OS X in all its glory. CoreOS is already talking about supporting it

Links of the day 24 - 04 - 2015

Today's links 24/04/2015: iOS fail, Memory Snooping Protection in HW, NVMe/PCIe fabric for storage, High performance server application framework

• Back to the Future With C++ and Seastar : Meetup notes on Seastar, open source server application framework written in C++ that presents a future/promise based API with 7 million requests per second served on a single machine. [slides]
• No iOS zone:  PoC of attack : within WiFi hotspot range iOS devices are rendered unstable / unusable by constant reboots.
• Cloud security reaches silicon : Hardware implementation of method for thwarting memory snooping or inference across VM attacks by disguising memory-access patterns
• NVMe/PCIe as a Storage Interface : an very good overview of the market, future solution and form factors.