Reflections Of The Void: joyent

Monday, February 15, 2016

Cryponet : really cool application of homomorphic encryption by microsoft enabling deep learning on encrypted data whi high accuracy. While I still think we are a still a couple of years away from everyday use of the tech due to performance limitation, this type of encryption is really going to up the game for security of public cloud data.
Netflix Open Source Meetup Season 4 Episode 1 : netflix and OSS (co-)evolution and spinnaker [video]
Jails and Zones : Papers We Love presentation by Bryan Cantrill on jails and zone in Solaris OS

Friday, June 19, 2015

Today's links 19/06/2015: Google network, Replication with RDMA, Triton #container

Google Network : TL:DR version without the "OMG we are so great tone" SDN relying on an underlying clos switch topology. [Video]
DRBD9 : now with RDMA added .. Next DPDK? We are moving away slowly from the all kernel solution for low latency and a userspace oriented ecosystem.
Triton : Joyent triton container tech. Interestingly enough they offer CPU bursting and RAM pooling for extra oomph when needed ( and if available)