Research Papers Summaries

• Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure
• Reverse Traceroute
• Recursively Cautious Congestion Control
• Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service
• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawa
• Scalability! But at what COST?

Tech Blog

• Setting Up for Dissector Writing
• Simple Wireshark Dissector for a Simple UDP Protocol
• Golang Error Handling: When Not Importing Creates The Most Dangerous Coupling
• First Impressions of Golang: Error Handling

Reading Notes, Talk Notes

Notes trying to capture the essence of talks or readings; nice for later review and occasionally with my own thoughts and interpreations.

• Algorithms behind Modern Storage Systems by Alex Petrov [Talk]
• A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt by Adam Tornhill [Talk]
• Timeless design in a cloud native world by Uwe Friedrichsen [Talk]
• The 7 Quests of Resilient Software Design by Uwe Friedrichsen [Talk]
• Your Brain on Software Development by Fahran Wallace [Talk]
• Uncoupling by Michael Nygard [Talk]
• Transactions: Myths, Surprises and Opportunities by Martin Kleppmann [Talk]
• Predictive Load-Balancing: Unfair But Faster & More Robust by Steve Gury [Talk]
• One Log by Arnaud Bailly & Yann Schwartz [Talk]
• Integrated Tests Are A Scam by J.B. Rainsberger [Talk]
• Queueing Theory in Practice: Performance Modeling for the Working Engineer by Eben Freeman [Talk]
• Designing for Performance by Martin Thompson [Talk]
• Everything about distributed systems is terrible by Hillel Wayne [Talk]
• The Verification of a Distributed System by Caitie McCaffrey [Talk]
• DDD & Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries! by Eric Evans [Talk]
• Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned by Ruslan Meshenberg [Talk]
• Making Architecture Matter by Martin Fowler [Talk]
• How to take great Engineers & make them great Technical Leaders by Courtney Hemphill [Talk]
• Chaos & Intuition Engineering at Netflix by Casey Rosenthal [Talk]
• Building Evolutionary Architectures by Patrick Kua [Talk]
• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout [Talk]
• A Frontend Server, Front to Back by Zach Tellman [Talk]
• PowerGraph: Distributed Graph-Parallel Computation on Natural Graphs [Talk]
• Testing in Production, the safe way
• Distributed Systems Observability
• The Datacenter as a Computer (Second Edition)
• My 10 Fears About the Future of the DBMS Field by Dr. Michael Stonebraker [Talk]
• Testing Distributed Systems with Deterministic Simulation by Will Wilson [Talk]
• Functional Programming with Java 8 by Venkat Subramaniam [Talk]
• Speed without Discipline a Recipe for Disaster by Venkat Subramaniam [Talk]
• Let’s Get Lazy—The Real Power of Functional Programming - Venkat Subramaniam [Talk]
• Core Design Principles for Software Developers by Venkat Subramaniam [Talk]