One big server
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/ [specbranch.com]
2022-09-02 13:11
tags:
architecture
perf
Monolith vs microservices ... small server vs big server...
We have all gotten so familiar with virtualization and abstractions between our software and the servers that run it. These days, “serverless” computing is all the rage, and even “bare metal” is a class of virtual machine. However, every piece of software runs on a server. Since we now live in a world of virtualization, most of these servers are a lot bigger and a lot cheaper than we actually think.
[The Bikeshed] Queue ACM articles from Poul-Henning Kamp
https://queue.acm.org/listing.cfm?sort=publication_date&order=desc&item_topic=all&qc_type=Thebikeshed&filter=all&page_title=The%20Bikeshed [queue.acm.org]
2022-09-01 19:54
tags:
acm
bikeshed
kamp
Makefile Tutorial
https://makefiletutorial.com/ [makefiletutorial.com]
2023-03-03 08:11
tags:
makefile
Huge Pages are a good idea
https://www.evanjones.ca/hugepages-are-a-good-idea.html [www.evanjones.ca]
2023-01-22 07:57
tags:
linux
memory
Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending-posix-end-era [www.usenix.org]
2022-12-23 10:07
tags:
posix
In this article, we provide a holistic view of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) abstractions by a systematic review of their historical evolution. We discuss some of the key factors that drove the evolution and identify the pitfalls that make them infeasible when building modern applications.
source: https://www.usenix.org
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
https://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html [blogs.newardassociates.com]
2023-03-31 12:20
tags:
microservice
Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.
source: CaptainPatate
Observations for students - Richard Hamming
https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~cai/hamming.pdf [www.ece.uvic.ca]
2022-09-14 16:28
tags:
excellence
history
learning
a. Learn to learn
b. Learn to question things
c. Acquire the permanent habit of learning
The Node.js Event Loop, Timers, and process.nextTick()
https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/event-loop-timers-and-nexttick/ [nodejs.org]
2022-09-02 13:07
tags:
nodejs
perf
What is the even loop and how it is supposed to work?
Writing for engineers
https://www.heinrichhartmann.com/posts/writing/ [www.heinrichhartmann.com]
2022-09-02 13:13
tags:
writing
Writing is key to have impact in large organizations. As a senior software engineer chances are that writing is the most important skill you have to acquire in order to increase your scope beyond the team and advance your career.
This article contains some learnings that have helped the author to become better and more productive as a writer over the past 15 years.
Paul Baran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:04
tags:
history
network
Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran /ˈbærən/; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching.
source: book; where wizards stay up late
The Grug Brained Developer
https://grugbrain.dev/ [grugbrain.dev]
2023-06-07 20:01
tags:
kiss
this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer
grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused
Remarks for Japan Prize award ceremony for Dennis Ritchie by Dough McIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/dmr.pdf [www.cs.dartmouth.edu]
2022-09-21 06:37
tags:
philosophy
unix
Adoring admirers have fed Linux goodies to a disheartening state of obesity.
If only some reincarnation with the genius and sensibility of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie were still guiding the evolution of Unix!
source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Unix_philosophy
Practical Data oriented design
https://vimeo.com/649009599 [vimeo.com]
2022-09-19 05:01
tags:
data-oriented-design
memory
zig
Talk from Andrew Kelley about data oriented design and how it can help to reduce memory footprint from workload with careful design.
You Want Modules, Not Microservices
http://blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2023/you-want-modules-not-microservices.html [blogs.newardassociates.com]
2023-01-07 06:46
tags:
microservice
Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream “way to do it” without any context or nuance, and the industry, desperate to find ways to improve their architecture, snaps it up without hesitation. Microservices was the latest in the trend, and it’s time we dissected the idea and got to the real root of what’s going on.
Enough problems to go around
https://world.hey.com/dhh/enough-problems-to-go-around-c10b887d [world.hey.com]
2024-05-02 21:01
tags:
Meaningful problems are the most valuable human motivators. Made-up problems are a blight. Ensure you have not quite enough time and people available to tackle the former lest you start inventing the latter.
source: dhh
OpenBSD innovations
https://openbsd-innovations.ctors.net/ [openbsd-innovations.ctors.net]
2023-03-03 08:13
tags:
openbsd
A curated list of openbsd’s innovations
Lawrence Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist) [en.wikipedia.org]
2022-09-13 04:13
tags:
computing
history
network
Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer...
As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American Paul Baran.
source: book; where wizards stay up late
On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace
https://www.rfc-editor.org/ien/ien137.txt [www.rfc-editor.org]
2022-09-13 06:13
tags:
endianness
history
rfc
This is an attempt to stop a war. I hope it is not too late and that somehow, magically perhaps, peace will prevail again.
The latecomers into the arena believe that the issue is: “What is the proper byte order in messages?”.
One way forward: finding a path to what comes after Unix
https://www.theregister.com/Tag/One%20Way%20Forward [www.theregister.com]
2024-03-02 05:49
tags:
os
Plan 9 was intended to be Unix, done better. It preemptively replaced a lot of what we now bodge together with virtual machines, containers, and even microkernels, and it did it more simply and cleanly. But it wasn’t compatible enough to replace its ancestor. With off-the-shelf existing 21st century tech, we can fix that.
source: fosdem2024
Bullshit jobs
https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ [strikemag.org]
2024-05-03 06:35
tags:
bullshit
Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)—and particularly its financial avatars—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.
source: dhh