Stuff I’m Interested In

https://speice.io/2019/02/understanding-allocations-in-rust.html

I enjoy these wide ranging, deeply technical conversations. One particularly interesting tidbit occurs at 27:30 when they are discussing the need for a standardized inter-controller protocol/API. If you go to other software domains, they don’t have a need or want for standardization at this level. You’ll want to listen to the following few minutes to […]

COZ: Finding Code that Counts with Causal Profiling This paper is worth reading just for one neat idea. Everyone wants to make their code fast. If you had a magic wand that enabled you to ‘make function X’ faster then you could measure the impact on the performance of the system and you would know […]

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

As of a couple days ago, for the first time since 1997, I no longer run a production email server – I’m a bit sad about it. I’ve long been a proponent of distributed communications systems like email. I spent a lot of time with XMPP but eventually had to concede I was never going […]

io_uring is a new interface for asynchronous I/O to the Linux kernel. The LWN article and the io_uring design doc are both worth reading. I’ve been playing with AF_XDP a bit and after reading the io_uring doc it seemed like some of the io_uring ideas would be great enhancements to AF_XDP. Happily, one of the […]

https://platformlab.stanford.edu/Seminar%20Talks/2018/David_Wetherall.pdf https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~amsmti3/files/carousel-sigcomm17.pdf Related talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAni0_lN7zE

https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-good-news-stories-you-probably-didnt-hear-about-in-2018-cc3c65f8ebd0