[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

[Links of the Day] 13/09/2018 : Kubernetes in Docker, Forensic Diffing AWS image, Consistent File system on top of S3

• kind : Kubernetes-in-Docker - A single node cluster to run your CI tests against that's ready in 30 seconds
• diffy : Diffy allows a forensic investigator to quickly scope a compromise across cloud instances during an incident, and triage those instances for followup actions.
• Snitch: Box created a Virtually Consistent FileSystem build on top of S3. An interesting solution that allows Box to prevent data loss by building a consistent solution using an eventually consistent storage. Sadly not open sourced... 

[Links of the Day] 12/10/2017 : bitcoin resource list, time series DB seminar, Microservices debugger

• Bitcoin resource list : extensive list of bitcoin resource ranging from basic introduction, history, tutorial, to in-depth tech materials
• Time Series Database Lecture : 2017 Carnegie Mellon university lectures. This is quite good as it not this series of lecture not only offer high-quality theoretical knowledge in the field but also invited talk from key commercial and opensource player in this field ( influxdb, timescale, etc..) 
• Squash : microservices debugger, because now you can't rely on your monolith debugging skill and tool set anymore ( ^_^).

[Links of the Day] 09/11/2016 : Deep Neural Net Threats, Scaling Uber, Tcp over Sound

• Assessing Threat of Adversarial Examples on Deep Neural Networks : machine learning is the next frontier for hacker. And because of its inherent opacity it requires special capabilities to secure system that relies on this underlying technology. This paper show that for text driven classification, adversarial exemple are more an academic curiosity than a real threat. However, we need to see if this can be applied to other type of classification. 
• Lesson learns about scaling Uber : Many talk are about scaling, however most company and startup would love to have those problems. Often its not about scaling, its about having the right product market fit. Then you can enjoy the roller coaster of scaling problems. 
• Quiet : TCP over sound . This is really cool, it allows to pass data through speakers on android devices.

List of essays from this blog is now up to date!

I recently went through and updated the list of essays on this blog – it’s now all up to date. As always, you can view them from my blog by clicking the Essays link just under the featured post

For the lazy folks, here’s the complete list, current as of today from the most recent to the oldest one:

• Bitcoin: the blockchain ecosystem lubricant : Where I look at how Bitcoin help keep the blockchain fair or fairer than private solution.
• Bitcoin double “double trouble” : Explaining some of the flaws in the bitcoin design, both economical and architectural one.
• Canonical Land and Grab Strategy to capture the private cloud market : Analysis of Canonical cloud strategy.
• The upcoming Storage API battle : look at the evolution of the storage ecosystem and the role of upcoming API.
• No, "you weren't ahead of time", you just were riding the wrong diffusion curve : understanding market diffusion curves 
• Terrorism and the emergence of Stand alone complex behavior : About the Stand alone complex will start permeating the terrorism landscape and how it will impact our daily life.
• Using financial tools to manage technical DebtOn the emergence of hardware level API for dis-aggregated datacenter resources : when it comes to debt finance has more experience to deal with it than IT folks. Lets look at the tools and approach they use to deal with it.
• (Big) Data is a double edged sword : Bigdata can cut both way and you need to understand how to handle it if you don't want to be cut.
• Intelligence cannot be commoditized : how the enterprise world needs to be realistic regarding its expectations of data science tools. 
• There is no unicorn in your BigData : looking at why it is a pointless exercise to hope to find the “next big idea” in your data and instead, one should be leveraging the information extracted towards operational excellence as well as market dominance. 
• From Converged Infrastructure To Disaggregated Datacenter : Look at the next logical step of datacenter technology evolution where resources get pooled across server rather than simply converged in each box.
• On avoiding vendor lock-in by leveraging Openstack : When you get too deep and you are stuck with it.
• Openstack consumption model : DiY vs Enterprise : comparing openstack adoption model.
• Architecture Overview of an Open Source Low TCO cloud storage system : post looking at what was a low TCO cloud storage, outdated now , but still retain some relevant part.
• The dark side of Green I.T. : when Green is just a lick of paint
• The network performance within the cloud, an hidden enemy : inner working of your cloud provider can be ( still is ) a massive black hole in your application performance view.
• The 5 Reasons You're Failing at innovating : my view at the time why big corporation cannot keep up with the innovation pace (changed since)
• After follow the moon, Avoid the law : when avoiding the law is more profitable than being energy efficient.
• IT Trading systems and Cloud take one : naive cloud based trading system , obsolete now. 
• Smart Grids, Smart Meters, and the complexity of the power grid market : Smart grid is problematic, and we didn't solve it so far.
• Turning off workstation, sustainability vs efficiency : looking at the real number behind some old claim.
• Google, the kettle and a calculator : quantifying the actual power cost of google search in 2009 and putting it into perspective. 
• Carpooling Vs Virtualization : sometimes a metaphor is the best tool to explain IT technology and its consequences.
• Virtualization: Energy Efficiency vs Energy Sustainability : when being efficient doesn't make you sustainable.
• Green IT: Sustainability , strategy and hype : greenwashing was all the rage at the time (2008)