[Links of the day] 09/01/2018 : Learned index structures, 2 paper on Human behavior : herding and stubbornness in Jury deliberation, overconfidence is universal?

• The Case for Learned Index Structures : as we performance progression for single code cpu slow down ( not to mention spectre and meltdown slowing down existing one). Application moves to a distributed model to scale. As a result databases and distributed systems are forced to become more data-aware to achieve efficiency and performance. This is a very nice paper that demonstrates that data structures often contain components that are learnable and machine learning system can help optimise those data structures. 
• Evidence of Herding and Stubbornness in Jury Deliberations : human do not rely on logic for important decision and try to coherence fellow human to fit its opinion... While this is widely know, we now have a good hint that this even happens in the judicial system of trial by jury. That or too many people saw twelve angry men. 
• Overconfidence Is Universal? : interesting paper trying to understand how to identify overconfidence and if this behaviour is more predominant in a certain type of population or gender. 

[Links of the day] 28/07/2016: LSM trees, Google cloud NLP API , Game Theory counter intuition

• Log Structured Merge Trees : good and succinct describing the cornerstone data-structure of many DB / KV / data store out there 
• Cloud Natural Language API : API reveals the structure and meaning of text by offering powerful machine learning models in an easy to use REST API. I can hear so many "sentiment" analisys start up out there suddenly realizing that their day our counted.. 
• Game Theory Is Really Counterintuitive : Game theory should be one of the mandatory class to be taken at university along with statistics. Once you understand the game principle you gain a significant edge in most human interaction. However, you have to train your brain to bypass its natural inclination and relearn the rules of the game. 

[Links of the day] 10/02/2016: Cloudstack fork, AsyncSSH, Purely functional data structures

• Mission critical cloud : for of Cloudstack focusing on a self contained mission critical cloud [github]
• Purely functional data structures published since 1998 : it seems that a there was a lot of new data structure added to the functional programmer tool belt.
• AsyncSSH : python package implementing client-server SSHv2 protocol leveraging asyncio framework.

 

Links of the day 24/11/2015 : Product prioritization using the Kano Model and Timers

• Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels : how to handle loads of object with timers and action attached to them.
• Kano Model : Overview of set of ideas and techniques developped by Noriaki Kano, that help determine customers (and prospects) satisfaction with product features.
• 20 Product Prioritization Techniques : derived from the above a breakdown in 20 separate techniques for product development prioritization.

Links of the day 17 - 03 - 2015

Today's links 17/03/2015: hash table datastructure and hashing Algorithm, #ARM virtualization, Hyper-converged Solution

• A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm : interesting and minimalist (in a good way) hashing algorithm allowing simple variable partitioning of the address space.
• Fast Bounded-Concurrency Hash Tables : very nice lock free data structure with bounded guarantee. This is an impressive piece of work.
• ARM virtualization extensions : in depth look into the virtualization features and extension of the ARM platform.
• Datacore & Huawei : Huawei FusionServer servers running DataCore SANsymphony-V software with Huawei Oceanstor direct-attached storage made into a virtual SAN across 2 to 64 servers.

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Links of the day 06 - 02 - 2015

Today's links 06/02/2015: Hashing, Distributed time series / monitoring , MTU, Spray list

• Perfect hashing : when you like your hash without collision 
• Prometheus : Some interesting concept such as data is sharded and local only for reliability and scalability, time series oriented storage and query system and expose time series via key value pair. 
• Path MTU discovery : when you want to know what is the biggest frame you can send when you do not own 100% of the network path ( or if you just forgot)
• Spray list : nice data structure delivering scalable relaxed priority queue[github implementation]

Links of the day 19 - 01 - 2015

Today's links 19/01/2015: Data-structure books, #cloud and business agility, Leslie Lamport interview

• Air Combat, Communism, Coal, and Clouds: Understanding Business Agility and IT Spending in the Age of Cloud, Gartner Symposium 2013 [slides]
• Leslie Lamport on LaTeX, Paxos, Distributed Systems, TLA and TLA+ :Interview with Leslie Lamport by Charles Humble on Jan 17, 2015
• Open Datastructure : Open book on datastructure with python / java code associated
• Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis :  third edition of the textbook by Clifford A. Shaffer