https://blog.merovius.de/2017/09/12/diminishing-returns-of-static-typing.html
It’s nice to see an argument that doesn’t boil down to ‘more of X is better’.
This reminds me of something I heard on the radio many years ago, paraphrasing:
A fundamentalist is someone who reacts to contradictory information by saying “we need to X harder/more”
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-hoiland-jorgensen.pdf
https://github.com/qmonnet/tbpoc-bpf
Very cool.
https://blog.yadutaf.fr/2017/07/28/tracing-a-packet-journey-using-linux-tracepoints-perf-ebpf/
Very interesting. The key is that eBPF programs can be attached to tracepoints.
I’ve been doing some experimenting with Google Cloud Dataflow recently. This has gotten me interested in systems in this area. Here are two good related papers.
https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41378.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2522738
I believe the first is the basis for Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam.
What I love about both of these is the work to find new abstractions that completely simplify the user facing model.