NiftyNet : TensorFlow based opensource CCNs platform aiming at accelerating research in medical image analysis.
Bigmachine : like coroutine? like golang? like serverless? well seek no further, bigmachine is for you. It's a really cool library for self-managing serverless computing. You basically write your service in a single monolithic go and bigmachine will distribute it for you. It feels like openMP but for serverless. [github]
Why do people neglect maintenance: well sadly it seems that often maintenance cost get compounded into technical debt. As the authors describe in this article, there is a lot of reason why maintenance often take a back seat when it comes to prioritisation of the next dev cycle. I also feel that the authors missed an important aspect: employee churn. New employees coming to a company usually don’t want to “maintain and fix” the code of others. Moreover, HR and any interviewer rarely advertise a position for: we need to make sure our services keep ticking so we need somebody to maintain our codebase.
pywonderland : A collection of python scripts for drawing beautiful figures or animating interesting algorithms in mathematics.
Breaking the x86 ISA : Back hat conf presentation on the sand sifter tool for detecting hardware bug or undocumented instruction in modern processors. Sadly, it's known that Intel's microcode binaries are encrypted, and are secured with a RSA2048-SHA256 signature. Which makes any discovery a little bit useless. Unless it's a bug and then it opens up a whole new world of possibility. [Slides] [Github]
mkosi : Tool for generating OS image. This is nice if you need to create an maintain low-level OS image with EFI support and GPT based table. It is invaluable if you do bare metal deployment / PXE based deployment. [github]
WiscKey : Key / Value pair system optimised for SSD systems. Especially aiming at avoiding write amplification with traditional LSM based K/V system.
Arc : plaintext manifest for provisioning and deploying a cloud infrastructure. It's quite nice and elegant interface for such tedious task. If you have used chef, puppet, cloud formation or terraform you know how verbose this can get.
Multidimensional Access Methods : 1996 paper showing how hard it is to resolve multidimensional queries . List the state of the art approach which are still relevant to date.
Cloudlets : I think I linked to cloudlets before, but I'll do it again jsut to remind myself to actually use them. Cloudlets are universal server images for the cloud. They're lightweight, version-controlled, and you can export them to any bootable format known to man: Xen, KVM, Amazon EC2, or just a plain bootable CD.
Shmoocon 2016 : excellent security conference , especially check out the post quantum crypto talk by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Bonus : video demonstrating CISE tool for proving distributed systems correctness
BPG : Frabice Bellard is a new image format based on HEVC and supported by most browsers with a small Javascript decoder. You can see the comparison with other format here
Atlas : bridge the gap between the devops split by bundling all 5 Hashicorp tools into a single SaaS solution. Really nice toolkit.
