Database Internals ; excellent series delving into the internal mechanism and algorithm of modern and not so modern database systems.
Fosdem 2019 Videos: Fosdem 2019 conference video start to filter through on the interweb
Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing paper which gives a quick history of cloud computing, including an accounting of the predictions of the 2009 Berkeley View of Cloud Computing paper, explains the motivation for serverless computing, describes applications that stretch the current limits of serverless, and then lists obstacles and research opportunities required for serverless computing to fulfil its full potential.
Incident Response : pager duty incident response documentation. This is a very thorough and well documented process for handling incident, before during and after their occurrence. Probably not one size fit all by can be easily adapted to an company needs.
Plain English legal guide on how to start a business : nice guide of the legal aspect of how to start a startup and the various options and pitfall associated with it. A little bit too US centric for my taste but still has some good insights.
33C3 :Chaos Computer Congress videos are now available. Chris Hager gave a great overview of the different talks. As always a lot of diversity and challenging presentations.
Code of NIPS16 : all code from the machine learning NIPS16 conference. Finally we start to see some traction to make code available alongside papers. I think all top conference should make mandatory that the code needs to be available on publication date. We don't care if its not production ready or nice.. We just want to see how these wonderful ideas translate in real code.
Earth Computing Network Fabric : event based protocol for datacenter that target specifically datacenter as it eliminate the need for heartbeats and timeouts. The protocol relies on recoverable atomic token to deliver deterministic in order communication. To some extend they are proposing to move back to latices system where each server are a node within the network and act as router for messages. This eliminate switch requirement and looks really neat. However adoption might be difficult due to the ubiquitous Ethernet hardware and also the need to change the underlying communication protocol. Last but not least I do not really know how to efficiently secure and trust messages on such network. [slides]
Computer Science video courses : Extensive collection of links to CS courses ranging from introductory to expert in pretty much the full scope of CS subject (DB, distributed systems, etc..)
Appdash : Application tracing system for Go, based on Google's Dapper.
Product Aikido : handbook for an organisation’s Product Development Group.
Stealing Machine Learning Models : the authors of the papers propose a technique that analyse response of system using Machine learning via their API in order to extract the model used. And as a result allow the attacker to determine the best response for manipulating the system.
Quantum Computing as a Service : Stanford seminar on "Quantum Computing as a Service" by Matt Johnson & Randall Correll of QCWare. What is stand out from most of the talk is that quantum computing is really a solution looking for a problem. You can speed up certain problem solving by an order of magnitude but paying customers with this type of problems seems scares. It can just be an educational problem and it seems they are trying to tackle this aspect well. However, they didn't talk about the elephant in the room : breaking cryptography for fun and profit. Maybe to sensitive of a topic?
Blitzscaling : all video lecture of Stanford CS183C, Technology-enabled Blitzscaling. A must watch after the YC startup class at Standford. Notes are [here]
